Why Do The Republicans Hate Us

I do not understand why Republicans hate LGBT people so much that they want to deny us basic human rights. They do not want us to have an education, jobs, a roof over our heads and to be able to go out in public. In other words they want us back deeply in our closets.

Anti-Discrimination Bill Headed to Full Senate
WSLS
By Associated Press Writer | (AP)
Published: May 09, 2011

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A proposal that would prohibit local governments from creating anti-discrimination laws that are stricter than the state's is headed for a full Senate vote after passing a Senate panel on Monday.

The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Mae Beavers of Mt. Juliet was approved 6-3 in the Senate State and Local Government Committee. The companion bill passed the House 73-24 last month.

The proposal would void a Nashville ordinance barring companies that discriminate against gays and lesbians from doing business with the city.

Under state law it is illegal to discriminate against a person because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin.

The Nashville ordinance prohibits companies that discriminate because of sexual orientation or gender identity from receiving city contracts. It does not apply to local governments' hiring policies for their own workers.

Tennessee is also trying to pass…

Senate to vote on measure seeking to prohibit teaching, discussion of homosexuality
By Jane Roberts
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Posted May 9, 2011

In schools and counseling offices across the region, the possibility that Tennessee educators could be banned from discussing homosexuality with K-8 students is bearing down, experts say, like no other state anti-gay legislation has.

"If it becomes taboo or illegal to even talk about homosexuality in the classroom or even in the halls, it creates a situation where a kid who may be gay will not have anyplace to go," said Jonathan Cole, chairman of the Tennessee Equality Project.

If teachers and school counselors can't intervene, who will stop the bullying, he asks.

Researcher have found that, “Research from several sources also revealed that LGB youth are nearly one and a half to seven times more likely than non-LGB youth to have reported attempting suicide.¹", but maybe the Republicans just don’t care about what happens to LGBT students.

Then look at what the Republicans are trying to do in Michigan,

Michigan House To Universities: Recruit Distinguished Gays And We’ll Cut Your Budget
Work Room
By Zack Ford
May 6th, 2011 a

Universities vie for the highest caliber faculty in a number of ways, including offering competitive partner benefits. In states like Michigan that do not offer recognition for even same-sex domestic partnerships, public universities there have still found ways to offer benefits to unmarried partners so they do not lose qualified candidates to schools in other states. According to an amendment to next year’s education budget by State Rep. Dave Agema (R), universities will now be punished to the tune of 5% of their funding for offering these benefits:

AGEMA: I had an amendment put into the education budget that takes 5% away from colleges that give same sex/unmarried benefits and places up to $60 million of that into the MPSRS K-12 budget if colleges do not stop skirting the law and the will of the people. Colleges can’t say they are short of money when they skirt the law and give such benefits. The Dems didn’t like this – it passed.

Republicans don’t care about education, they just want to push their agenda against LGBT people no matter what the collateral damage.

Here in Connecticut the Republicans continue their draconian attacks against the LGBT community. One of the amendments that they tried to tack onto the gender inclusive anti-discrimination bill HB6599 was to increase the criminal penalty for a person disguised as the opposite sex, so a bank robber that has a ski mask over their face will receive a lesser sentence from a bank robber dressed as a woman.

Why do they hate us?

¹Suicide Prevention Resource Center. (2008). Suicide risk and prevention for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Inc.