I Don’t Care What You Say About Me

But the Republicans are spiteful homophobic/transphobic bigots and if you vote for them you are condoning their actions. They say they want to get government off our backs but in reality they want government in our bedrooms, they want government in our bathrooms and they want government in our doctor’s offices. They want the most invasive type of government, they want government to enforce their definition of morality.

GOP Suddenly Takes Its Antigay Crusade to Congress
A House committee is using the defense bill to pass "religious exemptions" for federal contractors.
The Advocate
By Yezmin Villarreal
April 29, 2016

Republicans in Congress are using defense funding to help pass a "religious freedom" law through Congress.

The House Armed Services Committee on Thursday approved a "religious freedom" amendment to the defense authorization bill. It would undo an executive order from President Obama that prohibits government contractors from engaging in anti-LGBT discrimination against their employees.

The amendment, introduced by Rep. Steve Russell, could be compared to the "religious freedom" laws that caused outrage in Indiana, Arizona, Georgia and elsewhere. In this case, it would limit the federal government to protecting only those groups now named in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the American with Disabilities act, reports the Washington Blade. Neither of those laws protect LGBT people from discrimination, therefore Russell's amendment would allow religious organizations doing business with the U.S. government to fire or punish any employee based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

If it is a religious based homeless shelter and they are receiving public funding, under the law (and it is not something that President Obama just did with an executive order, but it was mandated by the courts) the shelter has accept all people into their shelters including trans people, gays and lesbians, they also have to take in same-sex families.

Under the proposed a religious based homeless shelter would be able to not only turn away LGBT people but also Muslims, Jews, blacks and anyone else they don’t like just by saying it is against their religious beliefs.

The article goes on to say,

The next opportunity to remove the amendment from the defense bill comes when the full House examines it. But if the amendment passes through the full House, it would become part of discussion by the conference comittee [sic] that reconciles the House and Senate versions.

If you think you are voting for smaller government and lower taxes you bought the Republican bait. Every anti LGBT bill, every “religious freedom” bill has been introduced by Republicans. They have tried to place a bounty on our heads, they has passed a law the sentences us to six months in jail for using the bathroom. They have stripped cities of their non-discrimination laws.

If you think Connecticut is immune you are wrong! Last year they tried to strip our health insurance from us and look at the amendment that I called the Scarlet Letter amendment that they tried to tack on to Connecticut’s non-discrimination law.

"Sec. 501. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2011) Any person holding a motor vehicle operator's license whose gender-related identity is different from that traditionally associated with the person's physiology or assigned sex at birth shall notify the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of such identity and the commissioner shall indicate such identity in the electronic record maintained by the commissioner pertaining to such person's operator's license. "

They wanted us to register with the DMV so that they could identify trans people if they used the bathroom.

The Republicans want to demonize us, they want to criminalize us. They want to use fear of us for votes and campaign contributions.

There are more things important than money, and it is treating everyone with respect and recognizing basic human rights.