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Related: About this forumAnti-gay group Texas Values endorses Sen. Donna Campbell’s “license to discriminate” bill
Jonathan Saenz, president of the anti-gay group Texas Values, has said he believes gays activists are trying to put Christians in jail.
So it comes as no surprise that Saenz and Texas Values are throwing their weight behind license to discriminate legislation filed this week by state Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels.
Campbells SJR 10 would allow business owners and others to turn away LGBT people, as long as they claim a sincerely held religious belief.
Campbell has denied that the proposed constitutional amendment is discriminatory. However, Lambda Legal senior counsel Jenny Pizer told me this week that SJR 10 would limit governments ability to enforce local nondiscrimination ordinances along with a host of other unintended consequences. For example, Pizer said the measure could even allow a group like the KKK to claim a right to use government-owned facilities for its meetings.
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BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...poorly written Adam Sandler movie. ?????
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Or, what if I have no religious belief?
Who the hell do these clowns think they are? Did they roll out of church one day and decide everyone else is exactly like them?
PDJane
(10,103 posts)If you're not my religion, my specific brand of whatever, you don't have a right to exist. Of course it's discriminatory. Moreover, it's discriminatory based on a myth. I'm getting really tired of this crap.
LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','comic sans MS',fantasy;" size=3 color=teal] This is only possible because of that moronic Hobby Lobby case.
Here is hoping that we get the WH again in '16 and that a conservative retires from the supreme court. We got to get the SCotUS back from the right wingers![/font]
msongs
(67,389 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,638 posts)And Mr. Saenz... kinda set my gaydar off. Big surprise.
They_Live
(3,231 posts)Why only discriminate against "the gays"? There is such a wide range of other folks that you could discriminate against. Campbell and Saenz are seriously scary creeps. May they find themselves in the Twilight Zone.