November 28, 2015 8:35 AM

Indiana: Home of the Free, Land of Bigots and Hyper-religious Homophobes

[Indiana] state Senate Republicans introduced legislation that would provide protections for LGBT people against discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations.

However, exemptions to the legislation include:

  • Schools, employers and others could determine their own restroom policies for transgender people
  • Businesses with less than four employees could refuse wedding services to same-sex couples
  • Religious-affiliated adoption agencies could reject prospective same-sex parents.

When is protecting human rights not protecting human rights? How about when, as in Indiana, legislation is proposed with enough holes to allow for the continued discrimination against the LGBT community?

The good, God-fearing Conservative White Christian patriots in the Indiana legislature have done little more than offer a bill that will cement the legal definition of the LGBT community as second-class citizens, unworthy of the rights and benefits that automatically accrue to heterosexuals. When legislation is intended as window dressing, it looks a lot like this. Sadly, even with the legislation’s built in discrimination, some Indiana Conservatives worry that the bill doesn’t go far enough in legalizing hatefulness and discrimination. To the way of thinking of these folks, anything less than the free, unfettered right to discriminate will put in the position of having to choose between God and government.

Right; can anyone remind me where and when Jesus Christ actually preached against homosexuality and same-sex marriage. If memory serves from my long ago Sunday School days, Jesus preached about things like love, tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion.

Oh…and if you’re going to default to the Old Testament even as your wearing clothes of mixed fibers, just save your breath and stop the hypocrisy right there.

This bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, This doesn’t protect LGBT people - it is a road map for discrimination against LGBT people.

It aims to guarantee the right of some medical, social services and other institutions to discriminate against married same-sex couples, and to do so with taxpayer dollars. It aims to write separate, lesser protections for LGBT people into state law.

If Indiana legislators were truly concerned with crafting a bill that protects the rights of Indiana citizens, it would be a far less complicated piece of legislation. Instead, it appears they’ve gone the extra mile to ensure that the LGBT community is legally defined as second-class and “less than” in the eyes of the law. They may not be mandating separate public restrooms or drinking fountains, but they’ve stopped just short of that.

Jenny Pizer, the law and policy director for Lambda Legal, has made it clear that Indiana’s proposed legislation is little more than a smoke screen for officially sanctioned discrimination against a minority class.

EXACTLY what Jesus would do…eh, Governor Pence??

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