In a move that shocked progrsive advot Kansas, the state's Republin ernor on Tuday issued an executive orr to remove discrimatn protectns for gay, lbian and transgenr state employe.
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- LAWS AGAST GAY SEX WERE LED UNNSTUTNAL LONG AGO, BUT KANSAS WON'T DROP S BAN
- KANSAS’ ANTI-GAY SEGREGATN BILL IS AN ABOMATN
LAWS AGAST GAY SEX WERE LED UNNSTUTNAL LONG AGO, BUT KANSAS WON'T DROP S BAN
The state's anti-gay discrimatn bill is doomed, but this is jt the first we've seen of stand-alone "relig liberty" bills. * kansas anti gay law *
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KANSAS’ ANTI-GAY SEGREGATN BILL IS AN ABOMATN
GOP lawmakers proposed ordated anti-gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr laws the stat’ legislatur. That isn’t our future. * kansas anti gay law *
“I talk to everyday Kansans every day who are exced about this bill's abily to protect women's opportuni, ” she rporate Ameri recent years has shown signs of disfort wh stat wh polici perceived to be unpopular wh nsumers — over everythg om gay marriage to voter supprsn. “I actually me out as gay when I end my marriage five years ago, and that end up not beg who I am.
On Tuday, the Kansas Hoe of Reprentativ overwhelmgly approved a measure signed to brg anti-gay segregatn—unr the guise of “relig... * kansas anti gay law *
Last week, lawmakers the state's Republin-ntrolled Hoe of Reprentativ set off outrage across the untry by passg a law that would not only make legal for private bs to discrimate agast gays, lbians, and transgenr people; would also perm state employe-long obliged by our legal tradn to serve all ctomers on equal terms-to ny LGBT people basic servic as long as they are motivated by "scerely held relig beliefs.
* kansas anti gay law *
" Narrow exemptns for relig and religly-affiliated stutns have creasgly bee a standard part of gay-marriage bills as more and more stat beg to enact equal marriage legislatively stead of rponse to a urt lg. But the Kansas law go far beyond such targeted exemptns by sanctng anti-gay discrimatn nearly every arena of public life.