Wasn’t there a direct correlation between this state, welfare and obesity? First we tell people they are too inept to go out and get a job, then when they get fat and lazy - we call them obese and tell them they are too big of a disgrace to eat in our public establishments!

What a joke.

Here’s my idea: Government GET OUT OF OUR PERSONAL LIVES!

So, just how is a restaurant supposed to determine if a person exceeds the BMI prescribed in the law? Is one of the teenage servers supposed to actually perform the needed measurements and calculations, make the call by just eyeballing the person. Or, will the person just have to try and fit through a pre-cut template to get in the restaurant? If you can’t fit through the hole you can’t enter, kind of like at the airport when a person has to try and get their carry on bag to fit the measurements to get it on the plane.

It has been rumored that this bill was written as a joke to parody all of the smoking ban legislation. This bill will never pass, but sadly some of the no smoking bills already have. I wouldn’t be surprised if this bill actually passed a vote in 20 years though, considering the direction government is heading now a days.

Morbid obesity is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Other forms of obesity have been successfully accepted under the ADA, even though it is not generally so. Thus, this law would be struck down within seconds of being passed. To even suggest it seems very suspect. I’d be voting against a certain 3 people (care to name the names?) were I a Mississippi resident.

Jamie,

I agree with MJP from Texas, how the heck are they going to determine a person’s BMI?? BMI is Body Mass Index and it is most accurate when someone does underwater weighing. Are they gonna have water tanks for customers to get into to find their BMI?? Sounds kind of stupid to me…

I had a high school teacher who had a thyroid problem. This resulted in him being very overweight even though he ate reasonably.

So should he be denied the joy of a night out because he has a medical condition??

Sounds like profiling to me.

Jamie, this is off topic but I have a question about your tour of the Peterson’s house. Did you see the laundry room? If you did, can you remember where it was located? Thanks.

I was under the ignorant assumption that my right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness probably included the right to buy and eat food. Silly me! I should have checked into that.

Wait, I’ve got a great idea…Why don’t we just outlaw all disabled, ill, and “obese” people entirely and solve the whole problem?! We can just round them up, starve them, and execute the silly ones who have the audacity and the nerve to insist on eating. We should definitely ban good people from reading The Bible too, it’s obvious they have been greedy and already over-indulged themselves. Why stop there….we could dispose of anyone who isn’t blondhaired & blue eyed so that we can reduce the epidemic rates of racism in one brilliant and compassionate fell swoop!

And these people actually got elected somehow!!! Someone PLEASE bring a lawsuit against this.
Alex Slocum, 25
MSU, Michigan

What Mississippi fails to realize is that fat people are a necessary assett during times of huricanes. Their over abundant girth make great wind blockers and their fat @sses can plug many a break in a levy. Help save Mississippi, Feed a fat person.

Oh great… another “nanny state”.

What!!! That is so wrong! What is wrong with society today? A fat person can’t order up fast food but a teenager can go get an abortion with out her parents knowing! Our priorities are really screwed up in this country!So if your ugly and it offends me do you have to wear a bag over your head?!

Yah, it’s okay to teach children about alternative lifestyles, marry the same sex, or whatever; so much weird stuff out there, I can’t even think of everyone of them. Some people have a weight problem because they maybe ate too many simple carbs and their body couldn’t metabolize them and then they developed elevated liver enzymes which says your liver isn’t doing it’s job and then, everything you put in your mouth goes to fat. I am not a big eater but I do have that problem and also a thyroid problem so I don’t know what to do. So don’t belittle fat people which is still one of the accepted discriminations in our society. Look at it this way; there are beautiful racing horses, and Clydesdale; so we weren’t all meant to look the same. Would be a very boring world.

At the risk of being called a lunatic - I believe this bill is a good idea but so unfortunately unrealistic.

The real problem is the FDA. The FDA use to be an organization that had zero ties with food and drug companies. They passed regulation that ensured the food and drugs Americans get are safe.

Now since they are in bed with the drug companies and obviously lax on food regulation now you see why the American population poisons itself.

Mississippi should pass a law that all fast food restaurants hand out a copy of the movie “Super Size Me” by Morgan Spurlock. Of course some people will want dvd or a vcr player handed out also.

The FDA should either have a complete change of leadership or disbanded one or the other.