Stupid, and I mean really stupid, legislation introduced in Iowa in response to recent ruling

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The Des Moines Register has a very small blurb about a new bill that a state Senator wants to introduce now that the Senate is winding down:

No Iowans should be forced to recognize a gay marriage if they’re religiously opposed to it, a state senator said Tuesday.

Sen. David Hartsuch, R-Bettendorf, said he is proposing a bill that says “a person shall not be compelled to recognize a marriage solemnized in this state if such recognition conflicts with the person’s religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

It’s too late for lawmakers to file new bills, but Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley asked the Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal Tuesday to sponsor the bill with him. Gronstal said he’d consider it.

This would broaden the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision, which held that no religion would beforced to recognize a marriage it didn’t want to, to include virtually anyone. But this bill, it seems to me, would run afoul of the state Supreme Court decision, opening up same-sex couples to precisely the kind of discrimination that the Supreme Court sought to address.

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/04/15/10686

You think interracial marriage is against your religion (See: Bob Jones University)?

That's OK! You don't have to recognize it anymore.

[customerserviceguy]

1. That was the same kind of language

bigots used in the 1960's to deny equal accommodations to racial minorities. The "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone (for any reason)" mentality was racism trying to hide under the blanket of individual rights. I guess the homophobes have not forgotten their history.