This country wants to fail. There's no other reason to behave this way. It's become so preoccupied with what legal channels it has to fark itself over that it completely forgot that it shouldn't be trying to fark itself over.

deschinc: Omahawg: I encourage any and all kansas farkers who find this outrageous to move on up here to Iowa. It seems ya'll have lost the fight against derp but we could sure use ya here.

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Does not approve.

oy...i know. i'm so glad he's no longer my rep and sure hope christie can beat him back to derpville. the northwest extremists are bleeding population fast though so I do congratulate him on the increasing marginalization of that part of our otherwise fine state.

Phins: I don't understand why these religious types are always getting all worked up by things that don't actually affect them.

That's the definition of a religious belief system.

We really just need a Supreme Court case that establishes sexual orientation as a protected class. Lawrence v. Texas started the ball rolling, and even the more conservative Justices seem to be okay with saying you can't discriminate against people for who they do. I may be overly optimistic, but I think within the next 5-10 years it'll be established as a protected class and all these state and local asshats can go fark themselves (NTTAWWT, since people should be able to fark whomever they want, provided consent).

The Name: nmrsnr: I may be overly optimistic, but I think within the next 5-10 years it'll be established as a protected class and all these state and local asshats can go fark themselves

That's very optimistic. Five of the nine current justices are GOP shills, and if Romney wins, it isn't going to get any better.

My biggest fear.

Kome: Phins: Her wedding was all about "woman submits to the man,"

Phins: People having sex that involves bondage violates her religious rights.

She sounds like a hypocrite.

Maybe she is only against males being bound and at the mercy of the woman. Or she could be worried about sex that doesn't lead to procreation, oral, manual, anal, because if there isn't a possibilty of prenancy God frowns on it. She just knows that her husband might slip in her backdoor if she can't stop him, but wait if she is supposed to submit to her husband does that mean that she does oral when her husband ask for it or does her Bible say that is a no no and that trumps her husbands position as head of the household.

/When the wife and I got our premarriage counseling the preacher told us a couple of stories, the first was about a husband who had trouble getting it up and his wife helped him out with this by "kissing his penis" he said this was not only okay it was a sign that the wife loved her husband. The second story was about a couple who approached him about whether anal sex was allowed, he said he went through the whole Bible but couldn't find any place anal sex between a married couple was forbidden.
//No he didn't use names when he told us the stories so I am not sure that my inlaws weren't one of the couples
///Yeah I know CSB

Reminds me of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery". People who support this crap are like the woman in the story, until they come up with the short straw. (In this case, having an employer or other person in power who doesn't agree with their religion.)

lockers: spongeboob: lockers: spongeboob: Help me out would my man here be allowed to do what he saw as his Christian duty under this law

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I'll need some context smartass.

John Brown abolitionist who believed in direct action
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During his time in Kansas he was involved int Pattawatomie Masacre Link

The laws should be applied equally. To all. Period. If at its time he should of hanged, he should of hanged. While i disagree with the law in place at the time, i will never think that it should be applied differently for whatever reason.

I am saying where does the right to say my religion requires this end. If someone's religion causes them to fire a gay person, what about someone who thinks they need to kill homosexuals to save them from hell, is that protected too.

deschinc: Omahawg: deschinc: Omahawg: I encourage any and all kansas farkers who find this outrageous to move on up here to Iowa. It seems ya'll have lost the fight against derp but we could sure use ya here.

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Does not approve.

oy...i know. i'm so glad he's no longer my rep and sure hope christie can beat him back to derpville. the northwest extremists are bleeding population fast though so I do congratulate him on the increasing marginalization of that part of our otherwise fine state.

Luckily I live in the People's Republic of Johnson County :)

I used to a long time ago but that's a hard ass place to try and live when you're working all night at the gilbert st country kitchen.

MrEricSir: Who wants to bet they'll repeal this law as soon as they realize it applies to non-Christians?

I mean, as soon as a Muslim boss decides all his female employers must wear burkas, or a Scientologist boss decides to fire everyone who's ever been to a shrink, or...

They've already banned Shariah, haven't they? Just need to nip a few more in the bud, and it's smooth sailing for the Greater Christian Christocracy.

MrEricSir: Who wants to bet they'll repeal this law as soon as they realize it applies to non-Christians?

I mean, as soon as a Muslim boss decides all his female employers must wear burkas, or a Scientologist boss decides to fire everyone who's ever been to a shrink, or...

You mean the way that the rules allowing Christian clubs were used to allow the formation of gay straight alliances. I think there were some schools that got rid of all clubs to keep the gays out. Here is one Link

Jim_Callahan: //The problem with just adding "sexual orientation" to the protected class list is that it'll just cause people to move on to some other petty bullshiat criteria to fire people. I'd say we should just amend it to "any reason not related to work performance" but that would cause trouble too (especially since it'd outlaw drug testing, a lot of people'd lose a lot of money over that).

Wait... was that supposed to a bad thing?

kg2095: The Name: LasersHurt: Hey, guys, remember THE PAST? Good, because we're going back!

This isn't even a joke. Twenty or thirty years from now, we're going to be fighting the exact same battles we fought in the 1960s (or the 1930s vis-a-vis labor rights), and it will likely only be more violent and divisive. Look what's going on with labor in Wisconsin, voting rights in Florida, gay rights in Kansas, immigr . . . well, just about everything in Arizona.

And now, with Citizens United, the possibility of a peaceful pendulum swing or even finding an equilibrium are quite remote. Americans are going to have to forcibly take back with is rightfully theirs (which they admittedly handed over by voting stupidly in the first place), and it's not going to be pretty.

We are living in interesting times, my friends.

I don't think so. These dinosaurs are on the way out and they know it. That's why they are making so much noise - they're struggling against reality.

With each passing year there are less of them and thirty years from now the last of them will have succumbed to old age.

if wish you were right but look at the young ron paul pseudo-libertarians, evangelical youth pastors who have wives with clown car vaginas and don't believe in evolution, and the otherwise mass of uninformed youth who pay more attention to angry birds and celebrity gossip than their future.

yeah...the derp is growing and spreading and must be stomped out with the great light of rationality. or, you know, a two by four.

extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice indeed, barry.

Omahawg: kg2095: The Name: LasersHurt: Hey, guys, remember THE PAST? Good, because we're going back!

This isn't even a joke. Twenty or thirty years from now, we're going to be fighting the exact same battles we fought in the 1960s (or the 1930s vis-a-vis labor rights), and it will likely only be more violent and divisive. Look what's going on with labor in Wisconsin, voting rights in Florida, gay rights in Kansas, immigr . . . well, just about everything in Arizona.

And now, with Citizens United, the possibility of a peaceful pendulum swing or even finding an equilibrium are quite remote. Americans are going to have to forcibly take back with is rightfully theirs (which they admittedly handed over by voting stupidly in the first place), and it's not going to be pretty.

We are living in interesting times, my friends.

I don't think so. These dinosaurs are on the way out and they know it. That's why they are making so much noise - they're struggling against reality.

With each passing year there are less of them and thirty years from now the last of them will have succumbed to old age.

if wish you were right but look at the young ron paul pseudo-libertarians, evangelical youth pastors who have wives with clown car vaginas and don't believe in evolution, and the otherwise mass of uninformed youth who pay more attention to angry birds and celebrity gossip than their future.

yeah...the derp is growing and spreading and must be stomped out with the great light of rationality. or, you know, a two by four.

extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice indeed, barry.

Even Barry G. wouldn't buy into this one.

nope.