Wyoming legislators withdraw bill allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press


CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill that would have allowed people to sue their employers if their policies about LGBTQ people conflicted with their religious or moral convictions is being withdrawn by its sponsors.

State Republican Reps. Cheri Steinmetz, of Lingle, Sue Wilson, of Cheyenne, and Nathan Winters, of Thermopolis, announced Thursday that they were withdrawing their bill, citing a need for a more thorough discussion about it.

The bill sponsors say they remain committed to safeguarding the free expression of religion. House Bill 135 drew heavy criticism since it was introduced. Sabrina King, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming, said the bill would legalize discrimination against same-sex couples and transgender people.

The gay rights organization Wyoming Equality said it was the most discriminatory of all such proposals in the nation.

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Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/wyoming-legislators-withdraw-bill-allowing-anti-lgbtq-discrimination/

[LisaM]

1. Don't their license plates say they are the Equality State?

I'm glad they pulled it, but what a sad comedown for a state that was the first to grant women's suffrage.

[Galileo126]

3. That was by necessity, not equality

Wyoming didn't have the number of people (aka - "men&quot to be come a state at the time. They only granted women the right to vote in order to have the number of "people" to become a state (500,000, I think).

[LisaM]

7. Well, whatever works!

My larger point is that I think they still brag about it on their license plates.

[tenorly]

2. Their chambers of commerce must have made the phones ring off the hook.

LGBT visitors probably leave $1 billion or more in tourist dollars in Wyoming.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I must be getting old

What happened in Church, stayed in Church

School was not even an ecumenical movement, it was school

If the religious beliefs of employees become matters for litigation,
no business is safe, they'd never get out of court. Every separate
religion could sue the employer for tolerating any other religion. 'I
don't like the cross you use, your wedding traditions, your married
or unmarried clergy, your church's philanthropies.'

It's not well examined, because we've been a tolerant nation, but
at various times Transubstantiation was a big issue. Martin Luther
had 95 Theses, these tolerance bills create all the drama with one
idea.

[Blue Idaho]

5. Wyoming - talk about a shithole.

With a miserable record of human right violations. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that these haters feel safe to crawl out from under the rocks now there is a homophobe in the White House.

The Whole World is Watching.

[6000eliot]

6. They're probably waiting for the federal law to take the heat off them.