Posted on 01/27/2016 6:09:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
The split over LGBT rights between social conservatives and the business wing of the Republican Party will likely be on full display Wednesday, when a GOP-controlled committee in the Indiana Senate takes up measures that could establish statewide protections based on sexual orientation and possibly gender identity.
The measures come in response to the bitter debate last March over a religious objections law that drew swift and largely negative attention to the state after critics contended that it would sanction discrimination against gay people on religious grounds. GOP lawmakers and Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who supported the law, hastily made changes to tamp down the uproar.
Since then, however, the state's business establishment has pushed lawmakers to adopt civil rights for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. That would include protections for anyone fired from a job, denied service or evicted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. ...
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The sodomites are entitled to no more rights than any other citizen.
These are not “rights” these are special privileges afforded sodomites over the rest of us.
Leftist group think at work. These laws are a ridiculous waste of resources, and the state is being defamed for a religious liberty law.
Until the Muslims get there and discriminate against the LGBT’s on religious grounds that will be acceptable.
Three guesses on which side will win.
How about a law that everybody has to be transgendered? That would end all the confusion over who goes in what restroom.
At least until they protest, then he will fold like a cheap suit.
The side that the politicians really favor, of course. Pence showed which side he was on already.
Yes. And almost all of these measures, whether by intention or not, wind up targeting Christians and only Christians. That is telling.
I was listening to a Bible teaching by Pastor Billy Crone, who is an excellent teacher on end times exposition and current events, note how all of the New Age, New World Order, and such always, always target Christianity (true, Biblical Christianity) as the obstacle which the world needs to be rid of. All the other religions will brought into the one world religion (though I don’t know how they think they’ll manage that with Muslims, though Muslims are allowed to use taqqiyah-deny their faith-and Christians are not allowed to ever deny Jesus). Quite a few of the statements coming from these types specifically mention Christianity as the one obstacle, never any other religion.
If this issue has done anything in the past few years, it has proven to me that the so-called “business wing of the GOP” is every bit an enemy to my values and beliefs that the Democrat Party is. I rally for their demise, along with the corporate America which has not only supported the depraved homo-fascists, but used its power to extort on its behalf. Abject evil.
It has gone GOP in every Presidential election since 1968.”
Except 08 when it went (narrowly) for obama. Not that it mattered, of course...
Pence is a traitor of the most despicable type.
This, I seriously doubt.
Some queer advocacy group is applying the pressure.
No sane business man would willingly and knowingly hire a person whose judgement and mental state is so obviously flawed as to believe they can change their sex, or that an attraction to someone of the same sex is natural.
I’m afraid it’s true. And has been brought forward by GOP legislative leaders. Despite a GOP supermajority in both houses.
I do find it peculiar that Christianity is always the target of such things. You have to ask why?
Because if the Christian religion may not act to worship in the public square, then the Christian ethos - caring for a fellow man - has no place in policy making - or guilt tripping Christian citizens to part with their rights or wealth.
According to my bible those privileges can become very.....invasive.
Why in the world would the business wing of the GOP want to support something that would just create expensive, stupid litigation for business owners? Republicans hold huge majorities in the Indiana legislature and if they can’t stop this nonsense, I’ll be highly disappointed.
I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body, does that count?
Is what I said - a queer advocacy group.
:)
But seriously - the world is just upside down...
Sorry about the edit, but it needed more accuracy.
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