It's Jim Crow, not Adam & Steve!

[BeachBumDeac]

Hachi machi

In addition to barring all anti-discrimination lawsuits against private employers, the new law permits government employees to deny service to gays in the name of “religious liberty.” This is nothing new, but the sweep of Kansas’ statute is breathtaking. Any government employee is given explicit permission to discriminate against gay couples—not just county clerks and DMV employees, but literally anyone who works for the state of Kansas. If a gay couple calls the police, an officer may refuse to help them if interacting with a gay couple violates his religious principles. State hospitals can turn away gay couples at the door and deny them treatment with impunity. Gay couples can be banned from public parks, public pools, anything that operates under the aegis of the Kansas state government.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/...i_gay_segregation_bill_is_an_abomination.html

 

[MBDeac08]

Same thing I posted on the sports board about this but:

Sounds like they just recycled a bill from the 1950's and replaced "Negro or Colored" with "Gay". If it makes it into law, it should easily be overturned as unconstitutional, but a bill like that should never be allowed to make it as far as it has.

 

[Liquid Karma]

When people make fun of the south for our fucked up social policy, we should all just point to Kansas. Jesus...

 

[PhDeac]

How does somebody know if two dudes or two women are gay in order to discriminate? They just have to guess.

 

[FuckmouthedRube]

Topeka gave the country Brown vs Board of Education and the Phelps Klan. Don't see how this move helps social conservatives' "cause". First time a gay military vet is refused service, this thing boomerangs badly on the legislature. They don't seem to have heard of Rosa Parks in Kansas. Brownback's a religious zealot, but can't imagine any firms that depend on a young workforce moving operations to Kansas anytime soon. So much for Silicon Prairie. A younger growing tax base is such a burden for a state.