Kansas house passes bill that would allow service refusal to same sex couples

[greymattermom]

A bill that would give public and private employees the right to refuse service based on their religious beliefs about marriage won initial approval in the Kansas House on Tuesday.

The vote was 72-42. A final vote set for Wednesday would send House Bill 2453 to the Senate.

Republican supporters say the bill is designed to protect religious liberty. Opponents say it targets same-sex couples and sanctions discrimination by government employees.

The bill was drafted in response to federal court rulings that overturned same-sex marriage bans in Utah and Oklahoma.


Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/02/11/3281557_full-house-vote-expected-on-bill.html#storylink=cpy

[greymattermom]

1. so all wait staff are supposed to be able to tell?

Really? Maybe it's the end of girls' night out.

[Violet_Crumble]

2. Well, there's 72 neanderthals trying to drag the US into Taliban Land...

I dunno. Is revolting too strong a word to use to describe what I think of that bunch?

[avebury]

4. I would love to see all these laws

attacked on the grounds that they do represent sharia law. Oklahoma actually has tried to pass a law saying that we cannot have sharia law in Oklahoma. These same idiots (along with so many others) seem to fail to recognize that they continue to try to pass laws that could be deemed types of sharia law if they were being proposed by a muslim and not a christian legislator.

If you tied the sharia tag on these legislators and their laws their heads would explode.

[gollygee]

3. Are they going to ask to see people's marriage certificates

to see if they're married and therefore have done what their religious beliefs about marriage can't deal with?

This has shit all to do with marriage of any sort. It's just to allow discrimination against gay people.