Maine Gov. LePage supports Mississippi law allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press

Saturday, November 5, 2016

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is backing Mississippi‘s appeal to reinstate a law letting merchants and government employees cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples.

The “religious objections” law was struck down in July.

Eight states are backing Mississippi’s appeal. The Portland Press Herald reports that LePage is listed, as an individual, in the “friend of the court” brief filed by those states. Maine voters added protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the state’s Civil Rights Act in 2005. And Maine voters legalized same-sex marriage in 2012.

In May, LePage, again as an individual, joined officials from 10 other states in suing over a federal directive that public schools should let transgender students use bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender identity.

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Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/11/maine-gov-lepage-supports-mississippi-law-allowing-anti-lgbtq-discrimination/

[RKP5637]

1. Some would like it to be, America, Home of Inequality! White Christian Rednecks only need exist. n/t

[forest444]

2. He should move his ass to Mississippi then.

Those stultifying summer days should do wonders for those bile sacs of his.

[Grey Lemercier]

3. religion and scumfuckery... going hand in hand since the god delusion was first hatched.

Fuck this bigot LePage.

[nightscanner59]

4. HTF did a progressive state put a reprehensible lard bucket like this in office?

Wasn't Maine one of the leading states to legalize same sex marriage or did it take some arm twisting to drag that racist, homophobic lard ball into the 21st century?

[Lucky Luciano]

9. Three candidates. The left split their votes and Herr Lepage is governor. nt

[astral]

5. .

Have people thought this through?
male adults will be sharing restrooms with female children.
I am not against people being transgender, but a biological male sharing a restroom where children are, which isn't just in schools but any place, is guaranteed to bring on the sexual predators who can pass as a transgender person on a whim.

This has all come about rather suddenly, and I'm afraid 'political correctness' is not the only thing to consider when making changes such as this.

When I was a kid, knowing restrooms were free of people of the other sex was a very important thing. Sorry, we didn't even know about people being gay or lesbian or transgender in those days.

Does being gay qualify in the same way as being transgender? Many people are bisexual, does this movement mean complete erasure of the difference between the sexes?

Children are too young to have to identify their gender preferences and focusing them in on this is more damaging than letting them develop and letting nature take its course.
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And Besides That! Who has ever heard of the bathroom police anyway? Don't people already use the restroom for the gender they identify with? Just eliminate urinals and make stall partitions a little more private, and quit pressuring kids to 'Make a Decision.'

I've gone into the wrong restroom by mistake in a movie theater years ago, and on other occasions, purposely went into the 'wrong' single-serve restroom when I had to go and saw no reason to wait, back in the day when even single-stall bathrooms were designated 'Men' or 'Women.'

Parents of young children, especially, think this over.

Unless you've never suffered a rape, or an attempted rape, or been the victim of child sexual abuse, or even know anyone who had.

[Ligyron]

8. This policy has been in effect in several states for some time now.

I'm not aware of any incidences of sexual assault having occurred as a result.

My guess is that trans gendered people have been using the restroom of their choice for years now.

Somebody male pretending to be otherwise and entering a female restroom stall with the purpose of voyeurism or sexual assault? We already have laws covering this and I know of no one being arrested or of even a report of this occurring.

Dressing rooms might be another matter tho'.

[Eugene]

6. LePuke

Knuckle dragging at every opportunity.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. This is a mix of business and religion

they are two separate entities, one is non-profit, one isn't

[sarcasmo]

10. Future member of the Trump cabinet.