Idaho Joins List of States Seeking to Legalize Anti-Gay Discrimination

Lynn Luker - the face of hate

If nothing else, the Christofascists and their whores in the Republican Party are consistent in their efforts to secure special rights that would allow Christofascists to disregard non-discrimination laws at will and even allow doctors, nurses, police officers and others to refuse to treat or aid gays.  Thankfully, a similar bill in Kansas appears headed for defeat, but that doesn't mean that the Christofacists and prostitute like GOP politicians such as Idaho Rep. Lynn Luker (pictured at left) will not keep trying to introduce and pass such measures.  Patheos looks at this disgusting development.  Here are article excerpts:

Other states are reiterating, legally, that you can’t discriminate in America.  For followers of the supposedly most loving religion in Idaho, this is just not good news.  Something must be done, and Republican Lynn Luker is just the person to do it.

Rep. Lynn Luker outlined a proposal Tuesday backed by his conservative Christian allies to shield religious people from the threat of losing their professional licenses for refusing service or employment to anyone they conclude violates their religious beliefs.

“This is pre-emptive,” said Luker, a Boise Republican. “The issue is coming, whether it’s 10 years, or 15 years, or two years.”

Yes, we’re approaching a time when gay people are guaranteed the same legal protections from discrimination as racial minorities.  If there’s one thing Jesus can’t stand…

He cited efforts by LGBT activists in other states to end discrimination against them – including two cases where same-sex couples in Oregon and New Mexico were denied service at a bakery for their wedding cake or wedding photographs – as his motivation to act quickly in Idaho.

Unlike those two states, Idaho’s Human Rights Act offers no protections for LGBT people, and Republican lawmakers have resisted efforts to include them.

The Cornerstone Family Council is backing Luker’s proposal, which is now awaiting a full hearing, to prevent the state from passing laws to block people from “living out their faith.”

If your faith demands you discriminate against people, then there should be legal prohibitions against you living out your faith. If somebody’s religion demands they sacrifice their first child, they don’t get to whine that the law blocks them from living out their faith.  Ditto, if your religion says you have to put a “Straights Only” sign over your drinking fountain, your religion must take a back seat to equality.

However, Luker noted, emergency personnel couldn’t refuse to treat someone and does not authorize the “the intentional infliction of emotional or physical injury.”

Yes, so if being treated like a pariah by elected leaders along with all the Christians in your town results in psychological damage then you can be guaranteed treatment once the problem reaches a critical point.  Up til then?  Fuck you.  Love of Chriiiiiiiiiiiist!

My contempt and loathing for "conservative Christians" increases by the day!  They simply are NOT nice and decent people.