[Vision2020] The Party of Hypocrisy Continues: Idaho's GOP

[Saundra Lund]

Huh -- they are all for local control . . . except when they disagree with
local decisions.  The hypocrisy and the bigotry is stunning.  What a
shocker.


http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/06/15/2618552/gop-urges-lawmakers-to-eras
e-lgbt.html

GOP urges lawmakers to erase LGBT protections

Published: June 15, 2013 

The Associated Press  
 
MCCALL, Idaho - Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to
put a stop to local communities' efforts to provide discrimination
protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

The approval of the non-binding resolution came Saturday at the GOP's annual
Central Committee summer meeting in McCall.

The GOP-dominated Idaho Legislature has refused to add housing and workplace
protections for gays and lesbians to the Idaho Human Rights Act.

As a consequence, numerous municipalities including Coeur d'Alene,
Sandpoint, Ketchum, Moscow and Boise are passing their own local
protections.

That didn't sit well with the majority of Republicans in McCall, who say
that Idaho lawmakers should put a stop to it.

According to the resolution, the Legislature should pass a law making local
discrimination protections unenforceable if they go beyond the state's
protections.