[Vision2020] The Party of Hypocrisy Continues: Idaho's GOP

[Tom Hansen]

Proof once again that the inmates are running the Idaho GOP asylum . . .

To deny a specific portion of society its access to fair treatment under the law is unconstitutional and wreaks of klan-ism.

Courtesy of the Bonner County Daily Bee under the headline "Idaho GOP may target gay rights measure" at:

http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/news/local/article_23db1c78-d580-11e2-8c8a-001a4bcf887a.html
 
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“We would find such a bill a real tragedy,” said Tony Stewart, a member of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, which has been encouraging local governments to adopt anti-bias ordinances. “Our hope is that our Legislature would not support such legislation.”
Stewart said the task force believes that no citizen should be a second-class citizen, and that no American should be denied such vital services as a job or an apartment based on discrimination.
“This is a fundamental issue of democracy,” Stewart said.
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You remember Tony Stewart, dontcha V-peeps?

Tony Stewart at "Finding the Center" conference in the Silver and Gold Room on the UI campus (November 5, 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrI-eg6pPis

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 


On Jun 16, 2013, at 12:25 AM, "Saundra Lund" <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Huh -- they are all for local control . . . except when they disagree with
> local decisions.  The hypocrisy and the bigotry is stunning.  What a
> shocker.
> 
> 
> http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/06/15/2618552/gop-urges-lawmakers-to-eras
> e-lgbt.html
> 
> GOP urges lawmakers to erase LGBT protections
> 
> Published: June 15, 2013 
> 
> The Associated Press  
> 
> MCCALL, Idaho - Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to
> put a stop to local communities' efforts to provide discrimination
> protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.
> 
> The approval of the non-binding resolution came Saturday at the GOP's annual
> Central Committee summer meeting in McCall.
> 
> The GOP-dominated Idaho Legislature has refused to add housing and workplace
> protections for gays and lesbians to the Idaho Human Rights Act.
> 
> As a consequence, numerous municipalities including Coeur d'Alene,
> Sandpoint, Ketchum, Moscow and Boise are passing their own local
> protections.
> 
> That didn't sit well with the majority of Republicans in McCall, who say
> that Idaho lawmakers should put a stop to it.
> 
> According to the resolution, the Legislature should pass a law making local
> discrimination protections unenforceable if they go beyond the state's
> protections. 
> 
> 
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