8-year old smarter than South Carolina Republicans.
No news there.
I was really hoping that one would be an April Fools’ thing.
“Gay conversion therapy” actually sounds like something that for some unimaginable reason (population control, maybe) would be prescribed for straights.
Although it’s applied to gays, it really is for the (bigoted) straights. It sure isn’t helping the victim/patient of the therapy.
I’d say his chances of becoming the next Governor of my state are about 0. We like the elect Republican governors, not bat shit insane ones though.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina, two Republican legislators have derailed a resolution, spearheaded by an eight-year-old’s letter to her representative, to have the Columbian wooly mammoth named the state fossil.
Why?
Because they want the resolution to specify that the mammoth was created by God on the sixth day.
Six posts too late! 
I’m sure a man who wants people locked up for thoughtcrimes and subjected to brainwashing would be a shoo-in for public office. And I’m sure his supporters would be perfectly happy with the precedent it would set, particularly when the other party eventually gets into power.
I think this speaks for itself:
http://budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy14budget.pdf
“Five years ago, we had a financial crisis.”
Really? Where were you six years ago, in 2008?
Not in Massachusetts; we like our Republicans pragmatic, fiscally conservative, and socially non-committal.
This tops it:
“Unfortunately, the President is shirking his duty. He has missed his budget deadline four times in five years.”
The Mississippi legislature has approved the conference report for S.B. 2681, a.k.a., the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. All it needs now is the very conservative Republican governor’s signature to become law, and it becomes legal to discriminate against anyone so long as it is the result of a religious belief.
Note to self: Move to Mississippi, convert to Aztec religion, make many sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli.
How wide open is this law? I can open a store and refuse to serve anyone who thinks the idea of a god is possible? No service if you’ve been to a church ever? Can you legally post a sign in the window saying, “NO Christians Allowed”?
I’d say this cute trick slash loophole/unintended albeit predictable consequence would be immediately shut down by a lawyer arguing that an anti-religious, areligious, irreligious belief does not, in fact, constitute a religious belief so suck it librulz. But hey, there’s no legal test for what constitutes a “real” religion that I’m aware of, Scientology proved that and then some. So if the sign says “NO non-Pastafarians allowed, Jedis tolerated under sufferance”, you should be ok.
That being said, the article linked states :
Full text of the law linked. Oh, and there’s a rider tacked on about the State’s official seal wot should have IN GOD WE TRUST on it or something, I ain’t know, man. I’m no legal guru, but on the surface it seems more of a Hobby Lobby Good Obamacare Bad type bill than a Queers Keep Out one. Just as stupid, different flavour.
I guess you can call me a bigot, but I really prefer that Jedis have their own facilities, away from decent folk.
-TK-9936, Cloud City Garrison, 501st Legion-
And the Druids. Not looking for any Druids, and I don’t want to find any.
These aren’t the Druids you’re looking for…
We will worship like the Druids
Running naked through the wuids
Drinking strange, fermented fluids
And that’s good enough for me!
- Force chokes Double Foolscap*