Scott Walker’s discrimination flip-flop: He was against it, now he’s all for it (Indiana)

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Monday, Mar 30, 2015 03:11 PM CST

Scott Walker’s discrimination flip-flop: He was against it, now he’s all for it

In 2013, Walker touted his state's LGBT protections. Now, he's lending support to Indiana's odious anti-gay law
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Scott Walker is supposed to be the candidate of principle among the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential contenders, but it’s rapidly becoming clear that his sole guiding principle is that he belongs in political office.

On abortion rights, “right-to-work” legislation, and immigration reform, the Wisconsin governor has recalibrated either his rhetoric (in the case of abortion) or his substantive position in the service of political expediency, demonstrating time and again that for all his rhetoric inveighing against cynical politics-as-usual, he’s one of its most prominent practitioners.

The latest Walker flip-flop comes amid the political firestorm over Indiana’s anti-gay “religious freedom” law, which would allow businesses and individuals to refuse services to LGBT people on religious grounds.

Gearing up for a difficult 2014 re-election battle in a swing state, Walker lauded his state’s non-discrimination protections for LGBT people in a 2013 interview, arguing that the state’s ban on marriage equality coupled with such protections struck a “healthy balance.”

“In Wisconsin, we’ve had anti-discriminatory laws that are very similar to [the proposed federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act] for more than 30 years and they work quite effectively. We’re also a state that has a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as one man and one woman,” he told Al Hunt. “We’ve had no problems… I should say, limited problems with that.”...........



Scott Walker (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)