Kansas House tentatively limits anti-discrimination ordinances

[Julian Englis]

Source: Kansas City Star

The Kansas House of Representatives on Wednesday gave tentative approval to a bill that could prohibit the city of Salina from adding sexual orientation and gender identity protections to its anti-discrimination ordinance.

House members voted 89-27 to approve the Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act, which would prohibit a governing body from making a law that could burden a person’s exercise of religion. It also prohibits governing bodies from adding protected classes to local anti-discrimination ordinances that are not in the state’s anti-discrimination law.

The act is up for final approval today.

“This will have a chilling effect on Salina’s ordinance and people who are different who might want to move to our city or state,” Rep. Charlie Roth, R-Salina, told the Journal in a phone interview after the vote. “I think this bill is not friendly and not welcoming to people who are different.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/29/3521591/kansas-house-tentatively-limits.html

[RKP5637]

1. So damn backward! Who the F would move to KS to accept a job unless the

pay and opportunities were incredible.

[atreides1]

2. Kansas

HQ of the Flat Earth Society!

Is anyone really surprised?

[RKP5637]

4. Kansas has become the laughing stock of the nation with shit like this, for

example.

[sakabatou]

3. I'm not surprised considering the state government

>.>

[barbtries]

5. know what?

i fucking hate republicans. i try not to harbor in hate within me, but i fucking hate republicans.
i'm going to start researching how to leave the country. i'd like a warm place, Caribbean, maybe a coastal central american place like Belize, i dunno.
i'm tired.

[RKP5637]

6. Republicans are a disease, a plague on this nation. n/t

[Sentath]

7. I'm sitting at my desk blushing

'Cause I'm from Kansas

[MissMarple]

8. Whoa, Nellie Bell! It's doubltful it will even get out of committee in the Senate.

Wichita, Hutchinson, and Pittsburg are not happy, and neither is Lawrence, which is not a surprise. Winger Kansas House bills have been shut down by the Senate before. Kansas is not totally lost, common sense yet may prevail. And read the article, it adds a lot of depth. Even guys voting for the bill don't think it will make it out of the Senate committee. Sheesh, they aren't even sure what is in the damn thing.

Where is the spell check? A person has to go away for a few months, and everything changes.

[snooper2]

9. Thank you Kansas for making the pukes in Texas look sane

LOL

[David__77]

10. So the white supremacist Christian religionists could engage in employment discrimination?

I mean, they couldn't under federal law, but Kansas would be saying that under state law, it would be OK. That is what this law is about, legalizing that sort of discrimination. Anyone can point their finger to god and say that god is sanctioning their behavior.

[greymattermom]

11. Those of us who live here

call it Brownbackistan.

[RKP5637]

13. Did you see this song about Brownbackistan on You Tube. It's great!!!

[Posteritatis]

12. Love those legislation names; we can tell who's really in charge. (nt)

[Dont call me Shirley]

14. Dumbshit KS fundamentalists; they've got a liscence for ignorance.

On a lighter note:

GO JAYHAWKS!