Business Community Silent As Arkansas Bill becomes law

[mrs izzy]

Business Community Silent As Arkansas Bill To Allow LGBT Discrimination Set To Become Law

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/02/16/3623436/arkansas-anti-lgbt-business-silent/

by Josh Israel Posted on February 16, 2015 at 2:22 pm Updated: February 17, 2015 at 8:27 am

Last week, both chambers of the Arkansas legislature passed a bill that would eliminate all local non-discrimination protections for LGBT Arkansans — legislation Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has vowed to let become law without his signature. While citizens are imploring Hutchinson to change his mind and veto the bill once it reaches his desk, Arkansas' business community has remained silent on the measure.

SB 202 would strip from local governments the power to protect LGBT citizens against employment, housing, public accommodations, as such protections go beyond existing state law............
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Update An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the bill had reached the governor's desk. The house and senate are still resolving a technical difference about when the bill goes into effect.

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just another one of them back door scared of transgender people. You know the same people who are just people until they get help for their GD.

What happened to title VII

[Dee Marshall]

We may find this web page useful

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arkansas_companies

I understand from the article that Walmart voluntarily protects our rights. As long as this remains true I will continue to shop there. As to the others, I'll endeavor to see if they do also and assume they don't until I see otherwise.

[LordKAT]

I will never understand a law that says you can not protect your community.

[Jill F]

Do we really need the feds to intervene here?  Really?

[Yukari-sensei]

Do we really need the feds to intervene here?  Really?

Being from Texas, I have learned the hard way to trust D.C. more than Austin on things... except salsa and brisket.

[Eva Marie]

It seems like Walmart would get ahold of their contacts in the Arkansas legislature and get this law sidelined pretty quickly since it potentially affects their employees and their business climate. Their silence is agreement with that law.

They are certainly big enough to have some serious effect in Arkansas - kid of like the old E.F. Hutton ad said - when they talk people in the Arkansas legislature listen.

[tgchar21]

A similar law was enacted and found unconstitutional in Colorado during the 1990s; if precedent holds the same will hopefully happen to the new Arkansas law.

[ChiGirl]

I can't imagine this law will not be declared unconstitutional.  (Triple Negative! Whoo!)

It's scary that right is finding these backdoors to discrimination.  It's like creating Jim Crow laws for LGBT folks. 

[Jill F]

Why do some of these recently passed and proposed pro-discrimination laws remind me of sporting events when one team is losing so badly that they resort to cheap shots and flagrant fouls toward the end?   I mean, these people all have to know that the game is over now, right?

Suck it, haters.  You've already lost and now we get to see what sore losers and pathetic human beings you truly are.

[suzifrommd]

Why do some of these recently passed and proposed pro-discrimination laws remind me of sporting events when one team is losing so badly that they resort to cheap shots and flagrant fouls toward the end?   I mean, these people all have to know that the game is over now, right?

Suck it, haters.  You've already lost and now we get to see what sore losers and pathetic human beings you truly are.

More like they see this as their last chance to lock in some really hard@$$ laws before they lose the ability to legislate. Kind of like a retreating army who not only burns the crops but salts the ground so nothing will grow for generations.