Discussion: Scott Walker: Critics Of Indiana Law 'Chronically Looking For Ways To Be Upset'

system1 · April 2, 2015, 8:16pm

Discussion for article #234983

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 9:04pm

Note to Scotty: The Wisconsin Constitution has a clause that is c&p from the First Amendment. Indiana could have done the same thing. Are you rally as stupid as Cotton et al?

wiscojoe · April 2, 2015, 9:09pm

Wisconsin was the first state to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, education, credit and all public accommodations. That law was signed by a Republican Governor back in 1982. That might be the reason our state currently doesn’t have the “hype and hysteria” over allowing businesses to discriminate against people based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, education, credit and all public accommodations like the current Indiana law does.

Maybe Scott Walker just doesn’t know this? He probably dropped out of college before they taught basic Wisconsin political history.

Again, just to clarify, businesses in Wisconsin cannot discriminate against people based on “religious liberty.” Perhaps Scott Walker might be asked to explain how Wisconsin’s Constitution is able to protect “religious liberty,” while also protecting people from public discrimination. I bet some of his fellow Republicans might be surprised to learn that religious liberty and the right to discriminate are not actually the same thing.

And believe me, the conservative religious organizations that back Walker here in Wisconsin are deadset on changing Wisconsin law and amending our constitution to allow for the type of discriminatory laws they are trying to pass in other states. These groups might be surprised to know that Walker now believes that their advocacy and political beliefs amount to nothing more than “hype and hysteria that the national media is creating,” or alternately that these groups are so incompetent or impotent that anyone taking them and their agenda seriously are just overreacting.

ncsteve · April 2, 2015, 9:11pm

I simply can’t get my head around how people in a basically sane and decent state would choose to be governed by a such a willfully stupid,deliberately abrasive, mean spirited asshole three times. Just don’t get it.

johnscotus · April 2, 2015, 9:13pm

It’s spelled “Koch” and has to do with money. Lots of money.

wiscojoe · April 2, 2015, 9:14pm

“It is a fundamental tenet of the Republican Party that government ought not intrude in the private lives of individuals where no state purpose is served, and there is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love.” -Governor Lee Dreyfus, Republican, 1982.

Can you imagine a Republican having the courage to publicly say these words today?

antisachetdethe · April 2, 2015, 9:15pm

Every time I see a picture of Scotty, he has his lips pursed. He knows all about Koch.

austin_dave · April 2, 2015, 9:17pm

JESUS ABORTION GUNS!! BENGHAZI!! PIZZAAAAAAA!! Remember The MEMORIES!!

darrtown · April 2, 2015, 9:17pm

So, Mr Walker, You’re heterosexual? Well, you aren’t welcome in my business. Religious reasons ya know.
How’s it feel Scotty?

Walker just doesn’t get it.
You’d think that when major companies are reacting as they are that Walker would wake up.

wwss · April 2, 2015, 9:17pm

And I bet that once they realize that they will try to change it …

austin_dave · April 2, 2015, 9:17pm

You know in Wisconsin you can order Mac and Cheese as a pizza topping. You really can. Tater Tots, too. Even for gay weddings.

austin_dave · April 2, 2015, 9:20pm

ajm · April 2, 2015, 9:23pm

What. A. Fool.

After Hobby Lobby, women have to investigate the religious history of their company’s owner in order to decipher how their reproductive health care is going to be provided.

Who wants to check out the religion of the owner when they want to order pizza for a wedding?

Pence tried to set up second class citizenship status for gays and got caught.

jinmichigan · April 2, 2015, 9:26pm

Hey Scott, FUCK YOU.

mmurdoch · April 2, 2015, 9:27pm

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
all xtians shall be absorbed

benthere · April 2, 2015, 9:28pm

By Walker’s logic, Martin Luther King was “chronically looking for ways to be upset.” These types of statements, of course, abandon logic in favor of fear-fueled emotion.

douglashh · April 2, 2015, 9:30pm

News flash Walker: There is nothing in the Constitution about ‘protecting’ religion.

stephen_maturin · April 2, 2015, 9:34pm

They’re so gosh-darned cute when they’re pandering.

I can’t wait for the debates.

thunderclapnewman · April 2, 2015, 9:34pm

Looks like the poster child for fetal alcohol syndrome is ready to go down with the ship.

view_from_the_front_porch · April 2, 2015, 9:37pm

Here’s a guy who reads the same newspapers as Sarah Palin. How can he not realize where the public is on this? He must have a death wish for his campaign to be President.