Kansas Tea Party group urges state senators to legalize discrimination against LGBT citizens
Source: Raw Story
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, February 24, 2014 10:27 EST
The Wichita-based Tea Party group Kansans for Liberty is beseeching state senators who are refusing to allow a bill that would legalize discrimination against same-sex couples.
As Raw Story reported on February 9, 2014, House Bill 2453 would make it such that no individual or religious entity shall be required by any governmental entity to provide any services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges if it would be contrary to the sincerely held religious beliefs of the individual or religious entity regarding sex or gender.
Moreover, any same-sex couple who sought legal recourse to complain about discrimination would be foiled, because a Kansan would have only to assert the protections provided [by the bill] as a defense to dismiss such action.
Kansans for Liberty leader Craig Gabel is upset that the state senate has put the bill on indefinite hold after LGBT activists across the nation complained that it would codify discrimination into law.
Gabel wants members of his group to email state senators and ask them to not to be cowed by a tiny minority of Kansans. Sample letters include language that indicates that the religious freedom bill would also protect LGBT couples.
If an LGBT couple owned a meeting space would any of us like to force them to rent it for an anti-gay rally and wedding? the sample letter read. Should an African American and his LGBT partner be forced to lease his space or services for a KKK wedding?
The executive director of the LGBT-rights group Equality Kansas, Thomas Witt, said that the idea that House Bill 2453 protects LGBT rights is false, from start to finish.
The sophistry is breathtaking, Witt told The Wichita Eagle. Theres only one target in this bill and it is gay couples.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/24/kansas-tea-party-group-urges-state-senators-to-legalize-discrimination-against-lgbt-citizens/
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)then it was the black community, then it was the hispanic community, then it was the non-christian community, then it was the gun control community, then it was the non-michelle batcrazy community...........and then only land owning white males could call themselves americans. I'd put a sarcasm tag here, but this is not sarcasm.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 24, 2014, 03:29 PM - Edit history (1)
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)barrel.
They aren't even worthy of being in the same sentence as a noble barrel.
Adjectives truly fail me.
atreides1
(16,103 posts)They would need a ladder the height of the Sears Tower, to even get close to the bottom of the barrel!
atreides1
(16,103 posts)When they connect an anti-gay rally and a KKK wedding with a "sincerely held religious belief"!
Nika
(546 posts)to the lynch the queers folk,
Chakab
(1,727 posts)actually the ones who are like the Nazis.
unblock
(52,440 posts)by their argument, i suppose germans were merely exercising their religious beliefs when they denies all manner of economic rights to jews, and jews were improperly requesting special rights.
if they say it's against their religion to serve or hire black people is that ok?
christx30
(6,241 posts)that were saying that integration was demonic:
By the mid-1960s, the legal status of segregation had been settled in America's courts and political chambers. But segregation's staunchest proponents continued to fight, insisting that integration was the leading edge of a social revolution bent on "overthrowing God's established order."
As conservative Christians reacted to what they regarded as perilous change, they pressed Nimrod's legend into service. One example is Corey Daniel of Dallas, a Baptist preacher who utilized the legend to depict integration as part of a demonic social scheme. ...Daniel combined race and disorder in his portrait of Nimrod, "the Negro leader of the Babelbuilders (Gen 10:6-10), whose name means 'Rebel.'" [...]
So, yeah. The precedent is there, in their mind, to allow (or encourage) segregation of races based on Biblical passages.
unblock
(52,440 posts)if they want to *believe* that gays are sinning or blacks should be slaves or jews should be gassed or whatever, that's one thing. even if it's a heinous belief, it's a belief and you could claim it has religious support or is a part of your religion.
but once you step into the public sphere and try to impose those views on others, or try to deprive others of rights and freedoms and so on based on those beliefs, it stops being religion.
christx30
(6,241 posts)everyone is a practicing Catholic. They think anyone that doesn't believe like they do is a demonic force, bent on destroying the country. If I can't scream "fag" at people in public without getting in trouble, and if I can't deny gays or unmarried couples food, clothing, ect, you are violating my freedom of religion."
Chakab
(1,727 posts)government spending and the bailouts. They aren't bigoted against anybody.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)The exact same mentality they had about Blacks (Jim Crow) et al.
They will lose and I hope that whole gawd damn goper party meet their true maker - the Devil.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)Everything from charging three times as much to dry-clean a woman's blouse vs. man's shirt to refusing them admission to law school.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)unblock
(52,440 posts)freedom for big businesses to merge, bust up unions, pay slave wages, pollute, treat employees and suppliers and customers like crap, etc.
freedom for proles? what's that? they can't contribute enough to *my* campaign.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)every right wing name for the something is the inverse of it's true objective.
adavid
(140 posts)The tea baggers always said they were all about economics, not societal issues. Hmm,...me thinks the John Birch society re-branded themselves.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Americans.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)so well in Arizona.