Advocates Say Sweeping Anti-LGBT Religious Freedom Bill Has No Limitations

[TexasTowelie]

With the media seemingly preoccupied by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s bathroom bill, three Republican state senators have quietly introduced a sweeping anti-LGBT “religious freedom” measure.

Senate Bill 651, filed last week, would bar state agencies that are responsible for regulating more than 65 licensed occupations from taking action against those who choose not to comply with professional standards due to religious objections.

Eunice Hyon Min Rho, advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, said SB 651 would open the door to rampant discrimination against LGBT people, women seeking reproductive health care and others. Rho said the bill could lead to doctors with religious objections refusing to perform medical procedures, teachers not reporting child abuse if they support corporal punishment, or a fundamentalist Mormon police officer declining to arrest a polygamist for taking underage brides.

“This is incredibly broadly written,” said Rho, who monitors religious freedom legislation across the country. “It’s just really alarming. There are no limitations to this bill.”

Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/lgbt-advocates-say-sweeping-anti-lgbt-religious-freedom-bill-no-limitations/

[Bohunk68]

1. Everything that my brothers/sisters have fought for for decades going up in smoke.

All because some were pissed that their candidate didn't get the Democratic nomination and chose not to vote or vote for those who had not a snowball's chance of winning. Just bite off their noses to spite their faces. WHICH is the same thing that Herr PutinFluffer's fluffers did. Like peas in the same pod. Meanwhile, look who is paying the price.

[RKP5637]

2. Religion is often used as a guise of alternative politics allowing, therefore, those who wish to

torment others to proceed with the blessing of their manufactured gods for their sadistic enjoyment. Fortunately, all religious people are NOT this way, but there is certainly an element worming into politics wishing to bring back the days of persecution and inquisitions. And, it is disgusting, a disgusting lot of barbaric people!

[LeftInTX]

3. I swear this state is nothing but a race to the bottom

It's like they trying to prove to the nation that every asshole is bigger in Texas.