Cliff Hite and Peggy Lehner Pass GLBT HB 176

Update: Brian @ One Oar in the Water points out an even more egregious aspect of this bill and make no bones about calling like it is (go to the link):

I didn’t beat around the bush, I called this straight as written in the bill; this was a back door infiltration for the pedophiles. We can talk about the constitution issues and private property rights, which are all valid concerns and accurate, but contained in the bill is a small clause opening the door for pedophiles, which means that no-minds like Debbie Phillips just let child predators gain protection and have access to our schools.

Ohio HB 176 passed yesterday with a 59-36 vote.

This bill was tabled over the summer and resurfaced rather quickly (shocker). While it will unlikely pass the Senate, the bill was successful in its original intent which was to raise “fight the good fight” money for the LGBT community.

How do I know this? Because people who claim to be fighting the conservative “good fight” do it all the time…

Local patriots who obviously know Ohio’s Constitution were Danny Bubp, Joe Uecker. Jeff Wagner rocked and of course strong conservatives like Seth Morgan (watch for this rising star) and Josh Mandel voted appropriately.

A video of the nonsense is here.

Still, the bill passed thanks to spineless Republicans like Cliff Hite and Peggy Lehner (who almost cried on the House floor); both of whom prefer to “feel” instead of “think.”

Please join me in emailing your displeasure with these morons.

As passed, HB 176 lists the following directives:

• Prohibits discriminatory practices on the basis of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” under many of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC) Law’s existing prohibitions against various unlawful discriminatory practices.
• Provides that the Ohio Civil Rights Commission must exercise certain of its existing powers and duties also with respect to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
• Provides that nothing in the OCRC Law’s provisions that govern Commission hearings on alleged unlawful discriminatory practices may be construed to authorize or require any person to observe the proportion that persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity or persons of any of current law’s covered characteristics bear to the total population or in accordance with any criterion other than the individual qualifications of an applicant for employment or membership.
• Adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of covered characteristics that are specified in various provisions of current law that prohibit persons or entities from discriminating on the basis of most of the covered characteristics.
• Adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of covered characteristics that are specified in various provisions of current law that require certain functions or duties to be performed without discrimination, require certain documents to include statements pertaining to nondiscrimination, or pertain to discrimination on the basis of most of the covered characteristics.

Sounds good, right (/sarc)?

Maybe… if you’re an inconsistent idiot. Let’s reason together, shall we?

The bill provides that religious organizations are precluded from the anti-discrimination aspects of this bill (not being forced to follow the mandates of hiring/firing GLBT’s due to their beliefs that homosexual behaviors are morally wrong). So individual property/business owners should not benefit from the same constitutional rights to religious freedom & freedom of association?

Let’s take a look at what should be every State Representative’s “bible” when considering – let alone voting – for any bill…

In the Bill of Rights of [Ohio's] Constitution, Section 1.7 declares (emphasis mine):

“All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almight God according to the dicatates of their own conscience. No person shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or maintain any form of worship, against his consent; …nor shall any interference with the rights of conscience be permitted.”

Hey Cliff, Peggy…have you read the Constitution you were sworn to uphold?

Wait! It gets even better! Under Section 4112.04, the bill allows for the same kind of nonsense that Mitt Romney permitted in Massachusetts. It – well here, you read it…

The bill instead requires the OCRC to prepare a comprehensive educational program, in cooperation with the state Department of Education, for Ohio public school students and all other Ohio residents that is designed to eliminate prejudice and discrimination in Ohio, and to emphasize the origin of prejudice and discrimination, their harmful effects, and their incompatibility with American principles of equality and fair play. (R.C. 4112.04(A)(9).)

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, your property tax dollars at work.  Pssshh, little Johnny doesn’t need reading, writing and arithmetic… he needs to be taught how to claim “discrimination” if he wants to use the women’s bathroom at work when he gets older…

Three words: No. More. Levies.

These points only scratch the surface. Read the whole thing and if you are so compelled, follow in the footsteps of this citizen warrior who expressed his discontent with the “I don’t know my own Constitution” Cliff and “Not Constitutionally proficient” Peggy” (with permission):

Dear Representative Hite:

I am not a voter in your District, so you may feel free to disregard my comments. But as a fellow Christian, I feel you should pay heed.

I believe that you exercised poor judgment in voting for this bill. I can understand sentiment that wants to make life “fair” and “tolerable” for all Ohio citizens. But the normalization of the deviant and dangerous behaviors as defined in this legislation in Section 4112.01 does no one any favors, neither the participants nor the public. I would hope that your study of the Scriptures would inform you that God warns us not to take part in homosexual behaviors. I would also hope that you would take the time to acquaint yourself on the sorts of behaviors that homosexuals indulge in that makes these practices so dangerous to themselves and to the general public.

Ask yourself: why is it that no blood bank in any country in the world will knowingly accept donations of blood from practicing male homosexuals? Are they merely discriminating against male homosexuals as the result of “prejudice,” as Section 4112.04 of this bill would have you believe? Or are the blood banks following sensible medical and public health protocols?

What happened to the time-honored American principles of property rights and freedom of association denied by the provisions of Section 4112.02 of this bill? Since all organizations and enterprises are, at their fundamental essence, founded and operated by individual people, why is it that “religious organizations” are exempted from the limitations on freedom imposed by this bill as long as they are “non-profit” while profit-making enterprises and organizations must give up their rights?

Do you truly believe that the Founders of our nation intended that sodomy, perversion, promiscuity, and adultery be elevated to the status of a “civil right” as established by Section 4112.04 of this bill? That the taxpayers should be forced against their consciences to pay for a commission and other apparatus to enforce such pretend “rights” ? That the public schools would be enlisted to instruct primary and secondary school pupils to accept and embrace such aberrant and dangerous behaviors, also mandated by Section 4112.04?

My hope is that, if you really care for people and children, you will do some study on what comprises the homosexual, bisexual, and transgender lifestyle, will publicly admit your error, and will work to preclude passage in the Ohio Senate. I realize that I am asking a lot–people hate to admit error or lack of judgment–but now and then we are surprised by honorable action.

I’ve grown weary of Republicans using our money to advance the Left’s agenda. Vote the bums out…