HOUSE APPROVES: Does Kansas Law Legalize Discrimination?
Kansas lawmakers voted overwhelmingly today to pass a bill that opponents say legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Some Democrats joined Republicans in the House on the 89-27 vote, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. If the Senate follows suit and Governor Sam Brownback signs the bill, as he has indicted, then anyone could opt out of anti-discrimination laws that protect gays and lesbians by claiming they violate their "religious freedom."
For example, an employer could fire someone if they discovered the employee was gay. Or a landlord could kick a renter out of their home. The religious exemption extends past places of business to universities, where students or instructors could opt out of a school's anti-discrimination policy.
The idea for the bill, called the "Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act," came in reaction to the college town of Lawrence passing an anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation. The new state law would nullify that and any other local anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation by granting citizens the right to opt out if they felt it conflicted with their religious beliefs.
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/03/28/HOUSE_APPROVES_Kansas_Law_Legalize_Discrimination/
FUCKING BIGOTS! 
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As stated upthread, this is why protection against discrimination needs to be guaranteed at the Federal level. As has been shown with other issues throughout our history, some states simply need to be dragged into the future on issues of social justice and equal rights.
