Kansas Family Policy Council says it will challenge anti-bias law

[proud2BlibKansan]

HUTCHINSON -- Just 10 days after a divided Hutchinson City Council passed an ordinance barring employers from firing or evicting people because of their sexual orientation, the Kansas Family Policy Council said Friday that it would launch a protest petition campaign that could lead to a public vote to overturn the ordinance.

Robert Noland, executive director of the Family Policy Council, said the grassroots effort would be organized under the name “Awaken Hutchinson” and an organizational and informational meeting would be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday in the Homebuilder's Shelter at Carey Park.

The Hutchinson ordinance was a compromise that stopped short of providing full protection from discrimination in all matters of employment and housing and didn't address public accommodations. Noland said he and other opponents were concerned that gay rights supporters would be back asking for broader protection next year.

“We think it's an incremental issue,” he said. “We already heard (at the June 5 Council meeting) that they may need to consider other issues. We just think it will be a little more next year.”

Noland said it's a matter of religious liberty.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/16/3661022/kansas-family-policy-council-says.html#storylink=cpy

[DCKit]

1. "Conservatives" trying to prove, by example, that evolution is a myth. nt

[William769]

2. It's not matter of religious liberty

It's a matter of persecution.

[RKP5637]

3. Some people just love to persecute others. if not the gays, then they would

find another to persecute. "Noland said it's a matter of religious liberty." BULLSHIT!!! It's bigotry and hatred hiding under the cloak of religion. Religion often gives the hatters a place to organize, and many back off if they invoke the god and Jesus words. Religion is often used as a vehicle for pure hatred and fertile ground for sociopaths and authoritarians.

[Evasporque]

4. I very weary of religious assholes....

very

[RKP5637]

8. I am totally fed up with religion. I cringe anymore whenever any even

mention religion. It's become a code word for hatred IMO. I left it years ago and all the better for it ...

[Initech]

5. I'm sick and tired of these "pro family" groups - they've done far more to hurt families than help them.

[RKP5637]

9. They've tainted the term family with hatred. They keep shoving family

before or after their hate mission and think that validates the cause. They also do the same with religion.

[joeybee12]

6. It's not religious liberty, it's religious tyranny...

Because you want others to believe what you believe.

[Sentath]

7. I would only change one word.

"Because you want others to believe what you believe."

Because you want others to do what you believe.

or if I was being cute

Because you want others to behave what you believe.