Round 2

Here we go again, the Judiciary Committee will vote on HB6599 today. I will be there watching the debate and vote, it is going to be hard listening to the opposition. They are taking the low road and are using fear, name calling and innuendos against the bill. There is no debating with them; their opposition isn’t based on fact or reason but on ideology. The say that they represent family values, but they are not the values that most families have, they are values based on hate. When pressed for examples of assaults that they are trying to label our community with, they give examples on their web page from states that do not even have gender inclusive anti-discrimination laws and of men who are not, in their words, “men dress as women”, but men dressed as men.

It could be worse, look at the bill that that was just blocked out in Montana,

Montana Bill to Ban Local Transgender, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Protections Abandoned by Senate
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund

April 4, 2011 - Montana House Bill 516 - which would have made it unlawful for any city, town or county in the state to pass a law protecting transgender, lesbian, gay or bisexual Montanans from discrimination - is all but dead… …Last Friday, that committee concluded its work without reviving the bill. So while nothing is guaranteed until the full legislature's session ends on April 29th, as of last Friday, the time for virtually all of the maneuvers that could resuscitate the bill had expired. The bill had previously passed the Montana House of Representatives.

The Republicans campaigned on jobs and the economy, but they had a secret conservative religious agenda.