LDS Church clarifies position on nondiscrimination legislation

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865618227/LDS-Church-clarifies-position-on-nondiscrimination-legislation.html

You realize Deseret News is owned by the Morg, right? You link to it quite a bit. DN is almost as bad as Fox News.

You're right, but in this case the article is correct, the church has supported nondiscrimination for years. I remember there was a long thread on here a few years ago about it, when the church supported some law that was helping to prevent discrimination against gay people when it comes to getting jobs and houses.

Obviously, this doesn't make the church true, but I'm just being honest, I definitely did read about the church supporting this before.

What are you talking about? They supported prop 8 in CA and prop 102 in AZ. They funded most of the campaign for prop 8 and prop 102 was vetoed by the Gov.

I think TSCC is so desperate to be thought well of, and Prop 8 was such a badbadbadbad move, that they're coming out with this just for the hopefully good press it will generate. "What? we aren't homophobes..." What other church, though, would be so arrogant as to say "we would totally allow this sort of legislation"? Why the h-e double hockey sticks should any church chime in on government issues? Oh yeah, because Utah is a theocracy, and the legislature takes their marching orders from the church.

"During the 2014 legislative session, Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, introduced a bill to amend Utah's laws to protect gays from discrimination in housing and employment. The bill didn't get a hearing due to concerns it would negatively impact the defense of Utah's gay marriage ban.

Urquhart plans to reintroduce the bill next month in the 2015 legislative session now that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the Utah case, making gay marriage legal in the state.

The measure had reached a committee hearing in 2013.

Urquhart's bill would make it illegal to deny employment or housing to a person based on sexual orientation or gender. Exemptions are allowed for religiously affiliated businesses and housing."

They support antidiscrimation laws as long as they're exempt, and as long as those laws are delayed so as to not interfere with their antigay crusades. Evil duplicitous assholes.