Rising Hegemon
A bill moving swiftly through the Georgia House of Representatives would allow business owners who believe homosexuality is a sin to openly discriminate against gay Americans by denying them employment or banning them from restaurants and hotels.Not only identical to Arizona's awful attempt, but particularly rich coming from one of the ol' cornerstones of the Confederacy.
Similar argument's were made in the 1950s and 1960s.
One could note they failed...eventually, though apparently stupid arguments are both immoral and immortal.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
6 comments:
I am truly heartened and inspired by the righteous outrage about this law thundering from the pulpits, lecterns and minbar of America. Not even snake handlers want to be associated with such blatant bigotry.
“Love the sinner; hate the sin” is not just hypocritical tripe.
Though I imagine there are some old bigots out there who wish they'd thought of that.
sharing is hard.
Well...damn...apparently they did try
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/26/3333161/religious-liberty-racist-anti-gay/#
How exactly would these laws work? I mean does the owner stand at the front door of the diner and inspect customers for "gayness?
Gotta love Georgia and its continuing effort to compete with Alabama and Mississippi as the asshole of the South.
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