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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWyoming GOP Bill Allows Christians To Treat Gay People Like Crap While Hiding Behind Their Bibles
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/15/wyoming-gop-bill-allows-christians-to-treat-gay-people-like-crap-while-hiding-behind-their-bibles/Republican state Rep. Nathan Winters, who is also a conservative Christian pastor, wrote House Bill 83. The bill would allow Christians in Wyoming to use religious liberty as an excuse to discriminate against the LGBT community and is so broad that it could also serve as a shield for racism and sexism....
For example, restaurant owners could refuse to serve gay people, African-Americans, or non-Christians and they can get away with it by simply claiming that their religious liberty gives them the right to do so. A doctor could refuse to perform an abortion procedure to save a womans life. A pharmacist could refuse to sell contraception to women. Employers could fire and refuse to hire gay people. Simply put, public and private citizens can basically discriminate against gay people and anyone else they consider inferior at will. And they can do this just by playing the religious liberty card....
Basically, this bill gives Christians a license to discriminate against anybody and treat them unequally on religious grounds and serves as yet another example of how conservatives are abusing freedom of religion to advance their hateful agenda. Its an embarrassment to the state, especially since the state is nicknamed The Equality State and the state motto is Equal rights. Looks like Wyoming can no longer lay claim to either if Republicans have their way.
randys1
(16,286 posts)2naSalit
(86,333 posts)ugly-demon-nightmare-from-Hell after all... and all his kin.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)and i do not visit. beautiful country, horrible politicians.
2naSalit
(86,333 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I'm over on the other side, sort of and less than ten miles from the border. Wyoming has a large affect - on a lot levels - on what happens in my border community.
i've driven through before, been to yellowstone, but that's about my experience with being in wyoming. i can tell you they are the worst drivers, though.
2naSalit
(86,333 posts)the park. I agree they are terrible drivers not sure if they were worse years ago or not. I have some lengthy war stories about driving in Wyoming, but I would wager that Utah, especially in the greater SLC area, are far worse, even than Idaho, California, Illinois and three states I can think of along the eastern seaboard! Not that MT doesn't have its' fair share! And then there's the park, one of the worst examples of how not to drive in the whole US of A!!!
Faux pas
(14,645 posts)"Christian" my atheist ass.
2naSalit
(86,333 posts)IF Wyoming ever was The Equality State and the state motto is Equal rights. it didn't stay that way for long. This Bill is no surprise and basically puts them on record for legalizing what they already get away with and have for quite some time. Besides, they're still pissed about all the trouble the Matthew Sheppard incident caused for them.
SamKnause
(13,088 posts)It is fine that they don't believe in 'Separation of Church and State'.
It will be wonderful when they replace the Constitution with the Bible.
Don't disrespect this wonderful Christian Pastor and elected official.
Don't disrespect this glorious religion of hate and division.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)No, really, he couldn't.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)It's like being a member of the nut of the day club, every single day some religious kernel cracks it's shell and joins the others in the bag of honey roasted crazy.