Tag Archives: discrimination

And to hate….

Well…just when you thought that the repubs couldn’t get any worse or hate any more, here comes Mississippi with a hate filled anti LGBT bill that is such a piece of crap and is so unconstitutional that there must be lead in water down there….this bill will allow anyone to discriminate against anyone just as long as it is a”strongly held religious belief”…this one will allow gay folks to be evicted from their housing, fired from their jobs and even goes farther to allow discrimination against anyone that doesn’t believe as these haters believe…unmarried and living together? Yep, you can be evicted from your housing and fired from you job….a woman wearing pants? Yep, employers that claim the religious crap exemption can now force women to wear skirts and I guess for men to wear beards or they can be fired…. a gay person in an emergency room? This bill allows the doctors and nurses to refuse treatment for religious grounds. There is just one thing I want everyone to remember, whenever there is hate in this country, it comes from the repubs…and whenever rights are taken away, it is the repubs that are behind it…come on ACLU…this one is ripe for a lawsuit today…get on it….geez…

Some hope in NC…

Well…with the passage of the new pro discrimination law in NC…the backlash has been fun to watch with company after company telling their idiot governor that they will leave the state and him trying and failing to justify the law…and now, the democratic attorney general has said that he will not defend the law in court…and there have been a number of suits already filed by the ACLU and others…I’m not sure what that will mean to getting the law repealed but there is one observation I want to make here…on every issue of expanding the rights of all the people, so everyone has equal rights, the dems are on the right side and the repubs are always on the side of oppression and keeping people from getting their rights…and, some repubs are starting to realize it….I read a quote the other day that a leading repub was lamenting that the country is leaving them behind and he is not sure what place conservatives have here anymore…I’d like to say your bigoted, cheating ways have no place in the US anymore…and I hope we show them that at the ballot box in November…geez…

The backlash begins in NC….

Well…as you probably already know, the repub controlled legislature in North Carolina passed a terrible discrimination bill the other day, in special session and in one day to avoid any input from anyone…the bill would allow anyone to discriminate against the LGBT community for any reason…and now, the backlash begins…basically every national business that does business in the state has condemned this blatant piece of crap bill and the flood of criticism continues today with the NFL saying that NC can forget about getting the super bowl they were expecting…and that has been followed up by the NCAA saying they will move the college basketball playoffs scheduled for 2017 out of NC….but, unless these people follow through on the threats these asses in NC will just laugh and say that it all just “liberals” that are the problem and they are just upholding “family values” for the people of NC…but, the thing is, over 65% of the people of NC didn’t want this bill passed…so who are these idiots representing? I hope these smug asses get the smiles wiped off their faces when the state starts losing billions of dollars when companies leave….they deserve it…geez…

Republican hate…part two…

Well…if you take a look down the page, you’ll see that I did one of these yesterday on the hate filled bill in Georgia that would legalize discrimination in Georgia…so now, I have to do one of the same on North Carolina, whose repub controlled legislature just went into special session yesterday to pass another one of this heinous bills…but in this case, the governor there, Pat McCrory, gleefully signed to bill to ensure that discrimination is now part of the face of NC. The repubs there plotted this little shenanigan to take place in one day to make sure there could be no citizen opposition to the bill…and a good thing since 65% of the people polled said they didn’t want this bill passed and, as in Georgia, businesses didn’t want it passed, either. So, just like Georgia, companies such as Dow Chemical, Amgen, and other have said they will pull out of the state if the bill was passed…but, in another little twist…this bill is in violation of title IX, which does not allow discrimination in schools…and guess what you haters? You have just cost your state 4 billion, yep, that’s billion dollars in federal school funding just so you haters can hate….I hope all of you pay for this crap…especially you McCrory, all of you repubs are the same….if you can’t hate, you don’t know what to do…geez…

Are they this stupid in Georgia?

Well…another day, another “religious freedom” law is passed in a repub controlled state…this time it’s Georgia pandering to the haters in their state by allowing anyone to discriminate against anyone if they feel like it…I know they thought they were being smart by keeping their law vague so they could hide behind the vagueness and use that to say that anyone that thinks it’s a license to discriminate is wrong…but that vagueness just means that the haters can basically discriminate against anyone…don’t like interracial couples? Check, you’re covered…discriminate away…don’t like gays? Check, you’re covered…discriminate away….don’t like the color of someone’s hair? If it’s a “strongly held religious belief” you are free to discriminate against them…and if you think this is anything but a childish tantrum against the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause…you are an idiot. The delicious irony here is that many large companies…Coke, Disney, Marvel, AMC (the Walking Dead) Home Depot…among others have said that they will leave the state if the idiot governor, Deal signs this atrocious bill into law. Now, we know the so called “religious” right has sway in the south…but I applaud these companies for not using their dollars to support this backward crap…explain this to your citizens, Deal, that their jobs are now gone and 4 billion dollars in economic activity has left your state just so a small group of assholes can discriminate against your fellow citizens…I’d love to hear that conversation….geez…

Special rights….

Well…I have just about had enough of the right’s railing against the “special rights” that they think gays will get if they get the same rights as the rest of us here in the US…I have yet to have anyone that supports discrimination against gays explain to me what these “special rights” are but there was a huge dose of irony that has come out of North Carolina over the past week dealing with the “special rights” that they are close to granting magistrates there that have “deeply held religious beliefs”….yeah, I put that in quotes because that phrase means they have deeply held bigoted beliefs that they think they should be able to act on…even if it is their job to issue marriage licenses. This new law, that was vetoed by the governor but looks like will be upheld with a veto override, grants these magistrates the ‘special right” to refuse to issue any couple a marriage license if they just shout “deeply held religious belief” before they discriminate…and, while the purpose of the bill is to allow discrimination against gays, it’s scope allows any magistrate to not give a marriage license to anyone they don’t like…interracial couple, check….Mexican couple, check, couple from a family they don’t like, check….how can we just saw these stupid states off and let them float away? These guys hate “special rights” unless it is for them and no one else…..geez…

The crazy has exploded in Kansas…

Well…I have been working up the outrage I need to do this one but a new law in Kansas is so jaw-droppingly crazy that I am struggling with how to even describe it…let’s give it a try…yesterday, the Kansas house passed a new law that says that anyone working in any job can refuse to provide services to anyone they suspect to be gay and use the “religious” excuse…and there are no exemptions for police, firefighters, or state employees…so now, in Kansas, if a firefighter pulls up to house that is on fire and he thinks the owner looks gay, he can just drive away without any consequences and let the persons house burn down…the same for any police officer there…if he/she sees a crime in progress and they think the victim looks gay, they can then just walk or drive away and leave the person to fend for themselves…and, the same goes for any state employee…if you walk into the DMV and the clerk thinks you look gay (whatever that is) they can refuse to provide the service they are being paid to do…what the hell is wrong with Kansas? They must know that this crap is against federal law and will be struck down…so why do they want to spend millions defending this institutional discrimination instead of using the money to benefit the people of Kansas? I just have no more words about this crap…geez…