The state's anti-gay discrimatn bill is doomed, but this is jt the first we've seen of stand-alone "relig liberty" bills.
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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
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Horn, who is gay, said that hurts the muny by hrg enomic velopment while privg of diversy. “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.
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 *
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.
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 *
" 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.
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. * kansas anti gay law *
What mak Kansas Hoe Bill 2453 pecially vic is that 's already legal to discrimate agast gay people Kansas, where gay marriage has been banned by nstutnal amendment sce 2006. Unlike stat like New York or California, which outlaw discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn employment and "public acmodatns, " gays and lbians Kansas have no siar laws makg illegal to kick someone who is gay or lbian out of a rtrant on Valente's Day, refe to rent them an apartment, or fire them om a job on acunt of their sexual orientatn.