West Virginia House Passes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

The Associated Press reports:

West Virginia’s GOP supermajority House of Delegates passed a bill Monday that would create a test for courts to apply when people challenge government regulations they believe interfere with their constitutional right to religious freedom.

The bill passed after several Democrats expressed concern that the proposal could be used as a tool to discriminate against LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups.

One of the legislation’s co-sponsors, Republican Del. Todd Kirby, said teachers “are being forced to push the left’s agenda, the government’s agenda, within the war on traditional families with such things as promoting transgenderism, homosexuality in our classrooms.”

Read the full article. Also yesterday, the Republican majority voted down a bill that would have protected local LGBTQ anti-discrimination ordinances. Multiple West Virginia cities have such ordinances, including the state capital.

The bill passed after several Democrats expressed concern that the proposal could be used as a tool to discriminate against LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups. https://t.co/Gns5Vc1IzT

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