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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKansas governor Sam Brownback kisses up to the Talibornagains...
With his usual stupidity.
In Kansas, Republican Governor Sam Brownback has issued "EXECUTIVE ORDER 15-05: Preservation and Protection of Religious Freedom," which seeks to indemnify anti-LGBTQ discrimination under the rubric of the state's modified version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Brownback writes in the Order that "the recent imposition of same sex marriage by the United States Supreme Court poses potential infringements on the civil right of religious liberty" and that, therefore, the state government shall not take "action against a religious organization, including those providing social services, wholly or partially on the basis that such organization declines or will decline to solemnize any marriage or to provide services, accommodations, facilities, goods, or privileges for a purpose related to the solemnization, formation, celebration or recognition of any marriage, based upon or consistent with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction..."
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2015/7/18/195546/653/Front_Page/Christian_Right_Turns_to_Nullification_to_Counter_Marriage_Equality_
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(82,849 posts)Under the infamous Hyde Amendment federal money can't be spent on abortion, a perfectly legal and therapeutic procedure. Beady-eyed jerks are forever scrutinizing any possible connection any federal expenditure might have to abortion, which is why Planned Parenthood (and it's not alone) is constantly having to explain to Congress and to the public that no, the money it receives for other community health outreach and treatment isn't paying for anyone's abortion. They also have to constantly defend against the allegation that because they get money for one thing, it makes more money available to provide abortion services, so really the federal dollars they receive for other programs and services indirectly fund abortion. It's a very expensive, never-ending little game that wastes everyone's time.
Now, Gov. Brownback is looking to stove-pipe anything anyone might ever do or sell that could be construed as providing "services, accommodations, facilities, goods, or privileges" to a same sex marriage, a perfectly legal event, and relieving the irretrievably prejudiced from their duty to participate in the life of our society. Call it the Butt-hurt Bigot Balm Act of 2015.