Hate, idiocy driving Nevada anti-transgender backers
Source: Reno Gazette-Journal
By Jon Ralston
... I watch events unfold in the Assembly Republican caucus, where a benighted subset seems more than willing to turn back the clock to a time when intolerance and ignorance were in full flower.
It's offensive enough that they too often make Nevada a national laughingstock with measures to repeal academic standards because of goofy Internet memes or pass unconstitutional bills for concerned constituents named Bundy. But when they begin to raise the half-century-old specter of segregation with an outrageous bill to make transgender children feel like aliens in their own schools, someone needs to call them on their antediluvian "ideas."
The measure, AB 375, actually passed the Judiciary Committee (on a party line vote) run by Ira Hansen, who once wrote homophobic columns and once told me he hadn't "called anyone a homo in a long time." The bill only has two names on it – Assemblywoman Vicki Dooling and state Sen. Scott Hammond. But the Republicans on the Assembly committee all backed it, so the measure now sits on the Assembly floor as the GOP leaders living in this century try to find a way to entomb it.
... I sometimes think some of these members of the Assembly Republican Caucus have been beamed into the Legislature from some alternate universe where it's still 1345 AD. Some are blinded by the limitations of their IQ. Some are colored by their religions. And some are simply nasty human beings.
... This is another unconscionable embarrassment for Nevada and yet another outrageously idiotic move by a caucus populated by lawmakers who will be known two years from now as accidents of history, one-term relics of the red wave of 2014. But the damage has been done.
Read more: http://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/14/ralston-reports-hate-idiocy-driving-ab-backers/25798275/
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How mean and stupid can people be?
