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[Piggus]

Not just ID, 6 states:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/religious-liberty-bills-idaho-kansas-tennessee

The Oregon one won't pass. Same sex mariage likely will pass though.

 

[Yazuka]

What in the actual fuck!?
A gay person could get denied medical help? And all the other shit?
Seriously? Why are there still homofobes?
What is so wrong with being gay? Its disgusting how gay people are being treated.
I get really pissed at stuff lime this, because one of my oldest and most dearest of friend is gay. And just imagining someone would treat him badly just because he isnt straight really pisses me of.

 

[Angry Grimace]

The whole argument under the Free Exercise Clause doesn't make sense because the directive not to discriminate against gays is not specifically aimed at a specific religion, its generally applicable.

In practice the Free Exercise clause makes it illegal to pass a law restricting a specific religion. What really pisses me off is how these people don't even understand one of the most easy to understand clauses in the Constitution. It is well settled that Courts and lawmakers can prohibit religious practices, e.g. ritual sacrifice.

Granted, that doesn't mean they can't pass the law invalidating the protections, but the underlying premise is faulty.

 

[pgtl_10]

I wonder if western media will bash Idaho the way they did to Russia? Probably not because the Russia bashing was not because they supported gays but because they want to bash Russia.

 

[Mortemis]

Eastern WA is much different from Western WA in many regards. My family had relatives in Spokane and many of them don't agree with that goes on around the King County area.

Yep, every time I went over the cascades I felt like I was in a totally different state, and I might as well be. The "cool" part of Washington is basically the counties next to the puget sound.

 

[Deified Data]

Doesn't stand a chance, but it makes my skin crawl that there are Idahoan legislators who feel this is a good thing.

 

[Tzeentch]

Idaho is fucked up. Like, don't slow down or deviate at all from major highways. Get to Silverwood and fucking stay put.

-- Oh, shut the hell up.

 

[Rajack]

Political grandstanding at its worst. All this is doing is costing their state precious tax dollars with the inevitable court battle that will ensue.

 

[Cat]

It is gone for now.


I love that he feels it was misinterpreted.

Just going to re-iterate this since many skip-to-the-end of a topic and don't know. Stopped for now.

 

[pswii60]

Just make sure they stay away from the children.

 

[mclem]

Uh, hello, have you read the Bible? God hates blowjays.

Somewhere, a bluejay high-fives another for having switched some letters in a printing press.

 

[Ethranes]

Can't believe that the Russian government would do something like this, it's fucking disgusting

 

[John Kowalski]

Giving legal protection to religiously fueled discrimination is absolutely insane and it speaks volumes about the state of humanitarian concerns in, well, Idaho i guess, but one has to imagine that there must be other similarly nutty but not as vocal bodies of power in the US.

 

[Replicant]

So they want to pass a bill to freely discriminate people? WTF?!

 

[fallagin]

Lmao, they are going to be smacked so hard...