Kansas Tea Party group urges state senators to legalize discrimination against LGBT citizens

[DonViejo]

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. “There’s only one target in this bill and it is gay couples.”

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[RKP5637]

1. Disciples from hell! n/t

[heaven05]

2. first it was the LGBT community

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]

3. Uganda, Russia, and GOPNRAteahadists are three peas in a pod. nt

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. worse yet, the last one is almost impossible to pronounce.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. These people are pathetic. They aren't bottom of the barrel. They aren't even under the

barrel.

They aren't even worthy of being in the same sentence as a noble barrel.

Adjectives truly fail me.

[atreides1]

6. Correct

They would need a ladder the height of the Sears Tower, to even get close to the bottom of the barrel!

[atreides1]

5. You know they have nothing

When they connect an anti-gay rally and a KKK wedding with a "sincerely held religious belief"!

[Nika]

7. Next they will want LGBT people to wear pink triangles to be identifiable

to the lynch the queers folk,

[Chakab]

12. ...and when they do, they'll be sure to claim that the people are call them on their shit are

actually the ones who are like the Nazis.

[unblock]

8. depriving other people of rights is not a religion.

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]

14. In the 1960's there were many people

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]

15. the line is drawn between believing and enforcing your views onto others' lives.

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]

23. They seem to forget that not

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]

9. ...but, but, but the mainstream media told me that the Tea Party are just against excessive

government spending and the bailouts. They aren't bigoted against anybody.

[Iliyah]

10. Tea Baggers are some sick ass motherf***ers

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]

11. That bill would allow discrimination against women.

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]

13. WTF? Kansans for Liberty? .........ironic name for group

[unblock]

16. freedom to oppress. the new orwell-speak for right-wingers.

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]

17. Just about

every right wing name for the something is the inverse of it's true objective.

[adavid]

18. Golly-Gee Willikers

The tea baggers always said they were all about economics, not societal issues. Hmm,...me thinks the John Birch society re-branded themselves.

[SoapBox]

19. Oh how the TeaTerrorists love to HATE...

Americans.

[Le Taz Hot]

21. Yeah, 'cause that shit's working out

so well in Arizona.

[blkmusclmachine]

22. Liberty for me. But not for thee.