Civil Liberties in Kansass?..Surely you jest. More like another case of Shriveled Liberties brought to you by Brownback’s legislature and his favorite Bill Mill ALEC. The hits just keep on coming from the heart of Koch Kountry.
“This is very good, narrow, targeted piece of legislation that will serve the betterment of our college campuses,” Brownback said.
“Narrow” is the perfect word for it.
Everybody can see where this is going. First every student organization claims to be religious because they want to have a little prayer at the start of some meetings, and then because they are “religious organizations” under this law, no student who has any identifiable characteristic that makes them different has any rights.
In related news, the Kansas State University Star Trek Club has announced that it will ban from membership anyone who thinks that Star Trek: Voyager was the best series in the franchise. Club factions are still forming in the epic Kirk or Picard? battle. The winning side is anticipating expelling all members of the losing side.
Ah sending Kansas back to the 50’s…
If you want to know what a christian terrorist looks like, take a look at the picture at the start of this article! Those people are no better than the moooslim’s that bomb railway stations and behead people!
If you have a problem with that, you must be a christian terrorist or supporter of them!
Good to see that Kansas is zeroing in on the really important issues that afflict that Republican paradise, huh?
Jesus will save us; that’s all that’s really important.
Republican policies there have absolutely ravaged that state, and it teeters on the verge of total collapse and third world status might soon be an upgrade for Ayn Randian-experiment Kansas.
And yet the Republican Cult’s grasp is firm. The use of culture war red herrings has worked amazing well on the majority of the voters in Kansas and they continue to plow through the Republicans’ horseshit looking for the pony.
I only feel sorry for those who opposed Brownback and his legislative cabal, for the rest, they get what they deserve.
What’s the difference between this and Sharia law?
The only conceivable way anyone not already a member of the target religion would want to join these groups is if they were told they can’t.
I don’t hold a very high opinion of evangelical atheism (as it usually manifests itself on college campuses in “Freethinker Societies” etc.) but you’ll notice their members are not currently joining small religious groups en masse and wreaking havoc, because it’s counterproductive and stupid. This will remove that disincentive, and replace it with an opportunity for righteous anger and publicity.
Reap as ye sow.
Hmmm…whatever happened to jobs, jobs, jobs…Oh that’s right. Kansas is in the hole now under Brownback. Downgraded under his leadership and entire system collapse in state financing…but they still keep passing stupid bills that will do nothing to improve the lives of Kansas citizens. Just give them that “old time religion” hoping that will pacify them a little longer.
This will definitely create jobs. Well done, Kansas.
The state SC will strike that down before the ink on the gubbinor’s signature is dry.
Opponents of the bill called it a veiled attempt to legalize discrimination. To counter this assertion, the Republican majority easily defeated an amendment adding language to prohibit violation of federal anti-discrimination law.
SCOTUS here we come . . again!
Campus religious groups have always been able to restrict their memberships. It’s just that now they’re able to restrict their memberships while still collecting free money and free office and meeting space from their university, paid for by all the students and by the taxpayers.
Which is pretty much the fundy idea of religious freedom: “You subsidize me, I exclude you.”