Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:21 PM

Kansas House tentatively limits anti-discrimination ordinances

Source: Kansas City Star

The Kansas House of Representatives on Wednesday gave tentative approval to a bill that could prohibit the city of Salina from adding sexual orientation and gender identity protections to its anti-discrimination ordinance.

House members voted 89-27 to approve the Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act, which would prohibit a governing body from making a law that could burden a person’s exercise of religion. It also prohibits governing bodies from adding protected classes to local anti-discrimination ordinances that are not in the state’s anti-discrimination law.

The act is up for final approval today.

“This will have a chilling effect on Salina’s ordinance and people who are different who might want to move to our city or state,” Rep. Charlie Roth, R-Salina, told the Journal in a phone interview after the vote. “I think this bill is not friendly and not welcoming to people who are different.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/29/3521591/kansas-house-tentatively-limits.html

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Kansas House tentatively limits anti-discrimination ordinances (Original post)	Julian Englis	Mar 2012	OP
So damn backward! Who the F would move to KS to accept a job unless the	RKP5637	Mar 2012	#1
Kansas	atreides1	Mar 2012	#2
Kansas has become the laughing stock of the nation with shit like this, for	RKP5637	Mar 2012	#4
I'm not surprised considering the state government	sakabatou	Mar 2012	#3
know what?	barbtries	Mar 2012	#5
Republicans are a disease, a plague on this nation. n/t	RKP5637	Mar 2012	#6
I'm sitting at my desk blushing	Sentath	Mar 2012	#7
Whoa, Nellie Bell! It's doubltful it will even get out of committee in the Senate.	MissMarple	Mar 2012	#8
Thank you Kansas for making the pukes in Texas look sane	snooper2	Mar 2012	#9
So the white supremacist Christian religionists could engage in employment discrimination?	David__77	Mar 2012	#10
Those of us who live here	greymattermom	Mar 2012	#11
Did you see this song about Brownbackistan on You Tube. It's great!!!	RKP5637	Mar 2012	#13
Love those legislation names; we can tell who's really in charge. (nt)	Posteritatis	Mar 2012	#12
Dumbshit KS fundamentalists; they've got a liscence for ignorance.	Dont call me Shirley	Mar 2012	#14

Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:27 PM

RKP5637 (25,592 posts)

1. So damn backward! Who the F would move to KS to accept a job unless the

pay and opportunities were incredible.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:30 PM

atreides1 (10,171 posts)

2. Kansas

HQ of the Flat Earth Society!

Is anyone really surprised?

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:33 PM

RKP5637 (25,592 posts)

4. Kansas has become the laughing stock of the nation with shit like this, for

example.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:31 PM

sakabatou (29,073 posts)

3. I'm not surprised considering the state government

>.>

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:33 PM

barbtries (15,010 posts)

5. know what?

i fucking hate republicans. i try not to harbor in hate within me, but i fucking hate republicans.
i'm going to start researching how to leave the country. i'd like a warm place, Caribbean, maybe a coastal central american place like Belize, i dunno.
i'm tired.

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Response to barbtries (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:36 PM

RKP5637 (25,592 posts)

6. Republicans are a disease, a plague on this nation. n/t

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:40 PM

Sentath (1,527 posts)

7. I'm sitting at my desk blushing

'Cause I'm from Kansas

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:29 PM

MissMarple (9,570 posts)

8. Whoa, Nellie Bell! It's doubltful it will even get out of committee in the Senate.

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Wichita, Hutchinson, and Pittsburg are not happy, and neither is Lawrence, which is not a surprise. Winger Kansas House bills have been shut down by the Senate before. Kansas is not totally lost, common sense yet may prevail. And read the article, it adds a lot of depth. Even guys voting for the bill don't think it will make it out of the Senate committee. Sheesh, they aren't even sure what is in the damn thing.

Where is the spell check? A person has to go away for a few months, and everything changes.

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:38 PM

snooper2 (16,603 posts)

9. Thank you Kansas for making the pukes in Texas look sane

LOL

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Response to Julian Englis (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:06 PM

David__77 (14,115 posts)

10. So the white supremacist Christian religionists could engage in employment discrimination?

I mean, they couldn't under federal law, but Kansas would be saying that under state law, it would be OK. That is what this law is about, legalizing that sort of discrimination. Anyone can point their finger to god and say that god is sanctioning their behavior.

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:13 PM

greymattermom (972 posts)