The hate keeps coming! Utah GOP Rep Proposes Bills To Exclude Gay Families From All Public Programs

[WillParkinson]

Utah GOP Rep Proposes Bills To Exclude Gay Families From All Public Programs

Using language that echoes words found in Mormon documents, Utah state Rep. LaVar Christensen has filed two bills may exclude gay families from all publicly funded programs and laws.

Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, filed a bill Wednesday, HB270, that would reiterate the state’s policy that marriage is between a man and a woman and require that publicly funded programs, laws and regulations that are designed to support families be “carefully scrutinized to ensure that they promote the family.” Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, said the group is "deeply concerned" about the proposed law. "It could be used to create a filter for public agencies and a way to target laws, services and funding that currently help single Utahns or Utahns with families that differ from Representative Christensen's," she said.

Christensen's second bill in a one-sentence item that declares, "An arrangement, agreement or transaction that is unlawful or violates public policy is void and unenforceable." LGBT activists say that could be interpreted to make void any wills or medical directives between gay couples. Christensen is a lay bishop with the LDS Church.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/02/utah-gop-rep-proposes-bills-to-exclude.html

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[LuvNewcastle]

2. This will also affect polygamous families, right?

n/t

[Betty]

3. carried to its logical conclusion,

the children of gay parents should not be able to go to public school, wouldn't that be true? All publicly funded programs? Even though their parents would be expected to pay full taxes.
Stay classy, GOP.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Not just schools. The police could not come to the aid of Gay families.

Publicly fire departments could not put out a fire in a gay person's home.
It is insidious.

[Betty]

6. and that means people would have to register with the state

as gay so that the police, fire depts, etc, would know who not to assist. Hmm.. maybe they should wear something on their clothing so that they can be easily identified out in public. That way, if one of them has a heart attack at the mall, the EMTs will know to leave them alone. And of course, some sort of sign on their houses for the fire dept. Yes, I see where this is headed.

[Ozymanithrax]

9. If people are not authorized those services, seeking to get them is fraud.

Yes, this is pretty uggly.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Need more of that "old time religion"

and I thought the Mormon religion was a cult

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Ah the Faith Community in Action!

They are a sight to behold.

[golddigger]

8. Scum fucking cult.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

10. Lovely...

Just the thing to make me think of converting to Mormonism or Xtianity...NOT!!

[Imagevision]

11. Only In America...

[Jmaxfie1]

12. Sounds like something out of Orwell

Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, filed a bill Wednesday, HB270, that would reiterate the state’s policy that marriage is between a man and a woman and require that publicly funded programs, laws and regulations that are designed to support families be “carefully scrutinized to ensure that they promote the family.”

Basically that could mean anything, which I guess is the point.