Oklahoma!

[Suradit69]

No, not the Rodgers and Hammerstein production.

Three new laws proposed by the charming Sally Kern (Republican), Oklahoma State Rep, who has opined that homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/01/26/3615283/oklahoma-discrimination-ex-gay-kern/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=tptop3&utm_campaign=tptop3

Her first bill, HB 1597, specifically empowers businesses to refuse service to the LGBT community. Unlike the slew of bills in other states that use “religious freedom” language to create a carve-out for anti-LGBT discrimination, Kern’s bill explicitly identifies LGBT people: “No business entity shall be required to provide any services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges related to any lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person, group or association.” This bill may be the most blatant “license to discriminate” of any legislation recently proffered by conservative lawmakers across the country.

HB 1598would create the “Freedom to Obtain Conversion Therapy Act,” insisting, “The people of this state have the right to seek and obtain counseling or conversion therapy from a mental health provider in order to control or end any unwanted sexual attraction, and no state agency shall infringe upon that right.” This includes minors, as the bill specifically empowers parents to obtain ex-gay therapy for their children “without interference by the state.”

Her third bill, HB 1599 (the so-called “Preservation of Sovereignty and Marriage Act”), borrows directly from similar legislation proposed in Texas to prevent government employees from receiving a salary if they issue a same-sex marriage license. “No taxpayer funds or governmental salaries shall be paid for any activity that includes the licensing or support of same-sex marriage,” the bill declares. Not only would clerks lose their salary, pension, and benefits, but any judge who issued a same-sex marriage license “shall be removed from office.”

And here she is all gussied up, spreading her wisdom far and wide.

Edited January 26, 2015 by Suradit69

[onthemoon]

Charming. Did she also propose a bill that states that any business should be allowed to refuse serving Republicans?

Point is: These people will always exist, especially in the US. There is no need to make additional free advertising for them.