BREAKING: UT GOP Introduces Bill Exempting “Religious Adherents” From Non-Discrimination Laws
Posted By Eric Ethington (Author) on February 2, 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah – In his 3rd anti-gay bill within the first 1/5 weeks of the 2011 legislative session, extremist Republican LaVar Christensen has introduced a bill which would exempt anyone from local non-discrimination laws if they do it on religious grounds.
The latest in Rep LaVar Christensen’s hate-bills, HB 109 amends the non-discrimination ordinances passed by 11 local cities and municipalities to exempt any person or business who discriminates as long as they say they do it because of their religion. This is one we’ve been expecting since LaVar’s boss at the Sutherland Institute, Paul Mero, first suggested and started pushing the amendment after Salt Lake City first passed the non-discrimination ordinance in 2009.
This would mean that any corporation, company or person could fire someone or evict them from their home because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender without any ramifications as long as when investigated they claim that “Jeebus said it was ok.”
Of course the bill provides no actual provisions to determine whether or not a person’s religion actually does encourage discrimination.
The bill’s language is so broad, it may actually mean discrimination against sex and possibly even race would be allowed on religious grounds as well.
LaVar’s 1st bill would strip the ability to create contracts from couples and the 2nd is a message bill which state’s Utah endorses only marriage between a man and a woman “as god created it.”
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.
Time to make gay a religion.
I’m sorry Mr Christensen, but I cannot allow you to work for me in anyway because it is against my religious beliefs to do so, and while we are at it that house you bought from me is not yours because I reserve the right based on my religious beliefs to sell it to you or even rent you somewhere to live simply because according to my religious beliefs I cannot do such a thing for someone such as yourself who so openly shows prejudice and bigotry.
What I am doing in denying you these things is not based on any prejudice or bigotry, it is based solely on my religious beliefs, I would do the same for any prejudice bigot who wanted to work for me or seek housing.
Are you saying that something like this could happen if LaVar Christensen’s bills were past into law. Maybe I should stay out of Utah then, but oh how I want to come back home some day.
Does this dumbass have any bloody idea the Pandora’s Box he’s opening? So, according to Rep Christensen’s bill… if I am religiously adhering to the religious dictates of my heart, and my religion tells me that Mormons are a satanic cult… then can I refuse to hire them? Can I fire them? Can I refuse them housing?
C’mon LaVar… …pull your self-righteous ass out of your pompous ass!
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