'Religious freedom' measure defeated in Missouri House committee

[kpete]

Source: St Louis Post Dispatcj

JEFFERSON CITY • Missourians likely will not vote on the controversial Senate Joint Resolution 39 after the House Emerging Issues Committee voted down the measure on a tie vote Wednesday.

Republican Reps. Anne Zerr of St. Charles, Caleb Rowden of Columbia and Jim Hansen of Frankford joined with the committee's three Democrats. With a tie 6-6 vote, the measure's tumultuous journey through the Missouri Legislature is probably over.

The resolution, if approved by voters, would have granted greater legal protections under the Missouri constitution to clergy and wedding vendors who decline to participate in a same-sex wedding.

Any course forward for the SJR is hard to see with a little more than two weeks remaining in the legislative session. Sen. Bob Onder, R-Lake Saint Louis, who sponsored the proposal, issued a statement indicating the measure was dead.

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[maxsolomon]

1. Suck it, Liberty Counsel

You've already seen your high-water mark.

[Cassiopeia]

2. Great news.

It's disturbing how many think these laws are about freedom.

I have a right to live without your religious beliefs forced upon me.

[Svafa]

3. Yes! Missouri is backward enough as it is.

[YOHABLO]

4. Religion is Poison

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. But Religious Freedumb.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Freedom to impose MY religious beliefs on others

If you tell them that many if not most Christians don't have a problem with LGBT folks, they'll tell you those people aren't "true Christians".

And maybe that God is a boob man.