Indiana Senate poised to take up LGBT rights bills

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_29437698/indiana-senate-poised-take-up-lgbt-rights-bills?source=rss

By Brian Slodysko Associated Press
Posted:   01/27/2016 12:06:35 AM MSTAdd a Comment | Updated:   116 min. ago
via The Denver Post

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The split over LGBT rights between social conservatives and the business wing of the Republican Party will likely be on full display Wednesday, when a GOP-controlled committee in the Indiana Senate takes up measures that could establish statewide protections based on sexual orientation and possibly gender identity.

The measures come in response to the bitter debate last March over a religious objections law that drew swift and largely negative attention to the state after critics contended that it would sanction discrimination against gay people on religious grounds. GOP lawmakers and Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who supported the law, hastily made changes to tamp down the uproar.
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How absolutely psychotic, on one hand you've got bills trying to guarantee LGBT rights and then you've got other legislators introducing repressive bathroom bills and the religious conservatives trying to halt human rights progress. Going to be interesting to see how all this plays out.

I see that one of the possibilities they will be considering throws transgender people under the bus again. I guess no peeing for me if I ever happen to be in Indiana for some reason.

LGBT human rights issues really need a federal ruling to stop this patchwork of laws that the states are passing.

Quote from: Eva Marie on January 27, 2016, 07:54:35 AM
LGBT human rights issues really need a federal ruling to stop this patchwork of laws that the states are passing.

I'm afraid we can't depend on 6 straight cisgender males and 3 straight cisgender females to get it right on transgender rights.

We will get rights on the federal level only after we as a community demand to be heard.

They threw us under the proverbial bus

Can't blame the LGBT supporters for this, they are complaining about leaving out Transgender protections. While the bill did pass out of the Indiana Senate Committee granting some protection to LGB persons, the "T" was completely left off. Still facing opposition from pastors and religious, the bill granting some protections for LGB persons, has enough "religious freedom" protections to basically make the bill worthless.

Essentially this story is a "yawn."

The hell with them. I will live my life as I see fit.