KY Trying to Pass a Bill That Would Make LGBT Protections Meaningless

[Rolyo85]

Frankly, it's making me absolutely furious... Fuck them and their fucking religious freedom! I'm sick and tired of" religious freedom" being tossed around as code for "I hate people".

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/201...tions.html?m=1

[JockBoy87]

Religious freedom is a farce, like states' rights, to maintain a social hierarchy and put down unpopular groups. These people are viscerally prejudiced and think they can get away with it by wrapping themselves in religious pretext.

[Rolyo85]

Religious freedom is a farce, like states' rights, to maintain a social hierarchy and put down unpopular groups. These people are viscerally prejudiced and think they can get away with it by wrapping themselves in religious pretext.

If the law passes, they're right...

[JockBoy87]

If the law passes, they're right...

What do you mean?

[T-Rexx]

The proposed KY law sounds like an anti-gay Cincinnati city law that was in place from 1993 to 2004.

For 11 years, the City of Cincinnati (just across the river from KY) had in force a law which made it illegal for anyone to claim discrimination on the basis of sexuality. In other words, anyone was free to fire gays from a job, deny service, refuse housing, etc. Gays had no recourse to acts of discrimination because sexuality could not be used as a basis for a claim of discrimination.

The law was finally repealed in 2004, when we got a Democratic mayor. Many local businesses contributed to the repeal effort, as they regarded hatred as a poor environment for commerce.

There is a video on YouTube about how gay rights activists managed to get the law repealed:

[Kulindahr]

No surprise the Roman church is backing this -- they still think they ought to be in charge of government as well as church. To them, and most denominations descended from Puritans, religious freedom means the freedom to make their religion higher than any other.

It's tragic, since Jesus flat out told His followers to never seek temporal/secular power.

[Ninja108]

The way the law is written, Christians can get denied service as well and I highly encourage it be used. If they want to impose their beliefs on us,we have the right to do the same.

[JockBoy87]

The way the law is written, Christians can get denied service as well and I highly encourage it be used. If they want to impose their beliefs on us,we have the right to do the same.

The Jane Elliott exercises are very effective at simulating the effects of discrimination without causing actual harm to people, e.g. indignity, ostracism, inconvenience, etc.

It would impart an understanding of why discrimination is wrong to those conservatives without trying right a wrong with another wrong.

[Rolyo85]

What do you mean?

Well, you said "These people are viscerally prejudiced and think they can get away with it by wrapping themselves in religious pretext."

If the law passes, they are right - they CAN get away with it.

But I agree that most of those idiots just assume there are only Christians in America. I wanna see them deal with Muslims refusing them service.

[Ninja108]

THey'll be the first ones screaming about Sharia law I'm sure

[GiancarloC]

More of this states right crap... the first excuse of states that want to pass discriminatory laws. That same old shitty excuse has been used since the 1860s to defend other nefarious injustices. And the "religious freedom" excuse, another one that makes absolutely no sense. Doesn't give them a right to make discriminatory laws.

You want to know what else is interesting? Many of the republicans in these states scream about state rights, but are fully fine taking federal money. Can't have it both ways. We need to get a federal law rolling in protecting against discrimination... either abide by the federal law or see your federal money in jeopardy.

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Kentucky... yea... says it all really.

[Mariatenebre]

Frankly, it's making me absolutely furious... Fuck them and their fucking religious freedom! I'm sick and tired of" religious freedom" being tossed around as code for "I hate people".

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/201...tions.html?m=1

What religious people need to realize is that under the law they don't have a religious right to discriminate. Just because their religion mandates discrimination and hatred of certain people does not mean that legally they can enforce this discrimination as the discriminated parties have rights too. What Christians and Muslims need to realize is that intolerance and discrimination should never be tolerated and they have no right to deny someone else equal rights and protections just because their backwards religion says so.