Kansas bill calls LGBTQ a religion, same-sex unions 'parody marriages'

[trotsky]

https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Wichita-educator-co-sponsors-bill-that-call-same-sex-unions-parody-marriages-505877561.html

Local LGBTQ rights groups are worried about the safety of Wichita students after a bill presented in the Kansas House called same-sex unions "parody marriages." The bill also goes on to call the LGBTQ community a "religion of secular humanism."

...The bill states "...there has been a land rush by many secular humanists to infiltrate public schools and public libraries with the intent to indoctrinate and proselytize minors to their religious worldview..."

(Liz) Hamor (founder of the Wichita Chapter of GLSEN, an education organization that works to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools) says those words are concerning.

"The bills that came out yesterday had language in there that was very harmful for LGBTQ Kansans, and then we find out that one of them was co-sponsored by an educator, a USD 259 educator, and I just had concerns that those are the kinds of things some of our students are hearing from educators."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If LGBTQ is a religion, isn't it entitled to the same First Amendment protections

as all other religions? Couldn't they form tax-exempt churches? Couldn't they claim that being LGBTQ is a sincerely-held religious belief and refuse to sell wedding cakes to Christians? And couldn't they object to Christians' attempts "to infiltrate public schools and public libraries with the intent to indoctrinate and proselytize minors to their religious worldview"?

That's some weapons-grade stupid happening in Kansas.

[Cartoonist]

2. But teaching creationism is . . .

. . . in the Constitution.