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Indiana Set To Pass “License To Discriminate” This Monday

Indiana is set to pass it’s “license to discriminate” legislation against LGBT folks this Monday according to Buzzfeed.

The bill basically allows businesses to turn away LGBT customers based on their “sincerely held religious beliefs.” In other words, if you don’t like gays – just say you’re Christian and you don’t have to serve them.

“I would predict the bill passes on Monday,” Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview Thursday.

Described by one of his critics as “the most powerful person in Indiana when the legislature is in session,” Bosma had just wrapped up a House vote in which his Republican majority shot down six amendments to soften the bill, all from Democrats, in 60-to-30 votes. “I think the votes on the amendments were a strong sign of how the bill will fare in final passage,” said Bosma.

Bosma has tentatively scheduled a final vote for Monday, March 23.

At a news conference earlier this week, Gov. Mike Pence said, “I strongly support the legislation and will sign it if it reaches my desk.”

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Pat Robertson: Equal Treatment Under The Law For Gays Is A “Nail In The Coffin” For America

Pat Robertson tells a viewer of The 700 Club saying that laws that make it illegal for businesses to deny service to customers on the basis of sexual orientation amount are “an outrageous invasion of religious liberty and a trampling of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

“I think the courts that forced that, the officials that forced it, were dead wrong and it’s just one more nail in the coffin of the morality of this nation,” Robertson said.

(via Right Wing Watch)

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Robert Oscar Lopez Hates Every Gay Dad

Anti-gay homocon Robert Oscar Lopez goes completely “screaming mimi” today writing on his personal blog about the recent dust-up between Elton John and Dolce & Gabbana.

“The completely petulant and histrionic response from gay parents like Ryan Murphy to Dolce & Gabbana’s comments can give average Americans a small taste of what children in such homes will have to deal with. You can’t be a good parent and want to have absolute control over what your kids think and feel, in addition to what the whole world thinks and feels about you and your kids. It’s a recipe for emotional abuse of whoever is under your power.

“Look at the punitive urge, the lust for vengeance, the despotism. That is what I see in Ricky Martin, Jeremy Hooper, Ryan Murphy, and Elton John.

“These are men who will terrorize human beings if they can, if they are within their striking distance. They acquired children the way they get everything they want in all aspects of their lives: through economic leverage, intimidation, and sheer arrogance.

“Imagine being a helpless and confused child longing for a mom, and being under the power of a dad who throws out clothing and calls for all-out destruction of anyone who hints that you have lost something by being denied a mom.

“Imagine not one such man lording over you, but two. This is horrible. These people are disgusting.”

He’s practically frothing at the mouth by the end of it all.

And by the way – “through economic leverage, intimidation, and sheer arrogance?” Sounds like Congressional Republicans to me…

All this from a gay man who:

• Petitioned the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop gay marriage in Texas

• Filed an anti-gay amicus brief in support of Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage

• Testified against LGBT equality before several state legislatures

• Co-signed an anti-gay brief to the Supreme Court in support of DOMA.

(via JMG)

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Pat Robertson Says Treat Your Gay Son Like A Drug Addict

Via Right Wing Watch, in this video, Pat Robertson tells a mother to treat her gay son like a drug addict.

“You cannot go along and say, ‘I agree with your lifestyle,’” he said. “So don’t be an enabler, any more if he’s a drug addict, you don’t enable people to continue in their drug habits. But you let him know you love him.”

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Accused Center City Gay Bashers Look To Have Charges Dropped

Lawyers for the three accused gay bashers in Center City last September plan to ask the court to reduce or throw out charges at a pre-trial hearing on April 16th.

Of course, sinners in hell want ice water, but that’s not happening either.

Via CBS News:

The three defendants — Kevin Harrigan, Philip Williams and Kathryn Knott — all of whom are in their mid 20’s, appeared with their lawyers for the status hearing.

At the preliminary hearing stage in December, a Municipal Court judge ruled there was sufficient evidence to prosecute them on aggravated assault, conspiracy, and other charges.

Defense lawyer Louis Busico, who represents the 24-year-old Knott, says all of the defendants maintain their innocence:

“Perhaps some of the charges may never see a courtroom, or they all may. That’s the purpose of reviewing discovery.”

The three are charged with two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of simple assault, two counts of recklessly endangering another person and one count of conspiracy.

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Oklahoma: Democrat Files Amendment Requiring Businesses Post Notice Of Refusal To Serve Gays

Oklahoma state Rep. Emily Virgin

This is my favorite thing today.

As Oklahoma continues to try and thwart the progress of marriage equality in the state, State Rep. Chuck Strohm (R) has introduced the “Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act” which would allow allow businesses to deny services to gays and lesbians if it was “against the person’s religious beliefs.”

As an amendment to that legislation, state Rep. Emily Virgin would like to require businesses that do not provide public accommodations to LGBT folks – based on their religious beliefs – to post that declaration visible for the public to see.

“Any person not wanting to participate in any of the activities set forth in subsection A of this section based on sexual orientation, gender identity or race of either party to the marriage shall post notice of such refusal in a manner clearly visible to the public in all places of business, including websites,” the amendment states.

“The notice may refer to the person’s religious beliefs, but shall state specifically which couples the business does not serve by referring to a refusal based upon sexual orientation, gender identity or race.”

The Gayly noted that Virgin’s amendment “would save minority couples from facing the indignity of being refused service.”

In related news, House Bill 1125, by Rep. Todd Russ (R), passed the state House today by a vote of 67-24. The law would abolish the government issuance of marriage certificates.

Instead, the law would require those officiating marriage ceremonies to file after-the-fact “certificates of marriage” with court clerks’ offices. Those not choosing a religious ceremony could file affidavits of common law marriage.

Opponents of HB1125 say the federal government could refuse to acknowledge these proposed ‘marriage certificates,’ thus risking the loss of hundreds of federal benefits for marriage couples.

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Tony Perkins Plans To Take “Leading Role” In Religious Liberty Blah Blah Blah

Tony Perkins of the anti-gay Family Research Council

Hate group leader Tony Perkins of the anti-gay Family Research Council announces he will testify at a Senate hearing regarding “religious liberty.”

“One of the benefits of putting conservatives in charge of Congress is that the agendas in most committees change — and issues that weren’t getting as much attention under liberal leaders are now front and center.

“Tomorrow [today], one of FRC’s greatest priorities, religious liberty, will be the subject of a Senate hearing in the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. As FRC takes more of a leading role in the debate, I’ve been asked to testify before the committee at 2:00 p.m. and hopefully highlight the need for greater engagement on what we see as a fundamental human right.

“With the persecution unfolding before our very eyes in the Middle East and Africa, the United States has an obligation to speak on behalf of religious freedom through every possible diplomatic avenue. After six years of silence, it is up to this Congress to repair the damage done by this administration’s indifference to persecuted Christians and other minorities.

“Our moral voice and supporting actions have been increasingly and noticeably absent with regard to international religious freedom. I’ll encourage the Senate to once again find that voice.”

I think it’s rich that Perkins claims that FRC will be taking “more of a leading role” in the religious liberty debate.

(via press release)

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Former New England Patriots’ Craig James: Pro Sports Supporting Marriage Equality Is Satan’s Work

Outsports reports on an appearance by anti-gay former New England Patriots player Craig James on Tony Perkins’ radio show where he objected to his former team filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage, saying it was the work of Satan.

“A locker room is a cohesive deal. A locker room is a place where everybody has different belief systems but you just get along. In my opinion, I look forward to seeing now, if management tells you and the coaching staff tells you that you better not say anything about the other side, you talk about implosion in the locker room. I know the believers I was with, my teammates — and there were a lot of believers in that locker room — we wouldn’t have been quiet for a moment, we would have spoken up.

“I have to say that … the thought of me filing something in the Supreme Court on behalf of players, I had pause. I’ll run through a wall with you guys [but] … if I were a current player in that locker room and my livelihood depended on me being quiet or losing it because of my belief system, I worry, I wonder. So, that’s Satan working on us.”

James came out as anti-gay during his failed 2012 Senate race, and eventually lost his job on Fox Sports for his views on LGBT folks.

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Oklahoma State Sen. Joseph Silk: Gays “Do Not Want People To Have Freedom”

Oklahoma state Sen. Joseph Silk has recently been in the spotlight for sponsoring a bill in the Oklahoma legislature that would allow religious business owners to legally discriminate against gay customers based on their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Silk was quoted last week by the New York Times that gay people “don’t have a right to be served in every single store.”

Today, Silk called in to virulently anti-gay Bryan Fischer’s radio show to defend his legislation. During the segment Silk told Fischer’s audience, “the LGBT activists do not want people to have freedom. They do not want people to be able to exercise their religious convictions. They don’t at all and people really don’t understand that.”

Listen below:

(via Right Wing Watch)

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Georgia: Anti-Gay “Religious Freedom” Bill Passes In State Senate 35-17

The bill, S.B. 129, had been tabled last week. But GOP state Sen. Josh McKoon put the legislation to a quick vote on Monday when Democratic committee members were taking a bathroom break.