Thursday, February 27, 2014

Think the Arizona gay ban is ridiculous? It's already legal to discriminate against gays in Pa and a legislator from Lancaster County is pushing further

The GOP has gone off crazier than usual. A PA state representative has proposed a constitutional amendment allowing discrimination as long as it is based on sincerely held beliefs.
PA State Rep. Gordon Denlinger, a Republican from Lancaster County, is looking for cosponsors to a proposed constitutional amendment that some say would allow Arizona-style discrimination right here in Pennsylvania.
“I plan to propose a new section in Article I — the Pennsylvania ‘Bill of Rights’ — that will prohibit government from punishing an individual or entity if the individual or entity makes hiring or other employment decisions, or provide services, accommodations (including housing accommodations), advantages, facilities, goods or privileges based on sincerely held beliefs,” Denlinger wrote in a Jan. 8 memorandum to his House colleagues.
Under Denlinger’s proposed amendment, “an individual or entity may not be found to have discriminated in making employment related decisions or providing services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges if the action was based on the sincerely held beliefs of the individual or entity,” he wrote.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I guess this moron didn't see how the AZ thing turned out.

--FMB

Joe Lintner said...

Right. It's just political grandstanding anyway. He's playing to a particular segment of his base (homophobes and fundamentalist Christians). If he has any sense at all, he knows it won't pass. If he has any morals at all, he knows it's wrong.

Anonymous said...

anything that keeps government out of things can't be all that bad

Joe Lintner said...

Exactly. Government will continue to overstep its bounds if we let it.

Anonymous said...

its a shame the rest of the American people can't see things as they are. The Goivernment will continue to overstep its bounds because they can.