<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Proof once again that the inmates are running the Idaho GOP asylum . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">To deny a specific portion of society its access to fair treatment under the law is unconstitutional and wreaks of klan-ism.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Bonner County Daily Bee under the headline "Idaho GOP may target gay rights measure" at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/news/local/article_23db1c78-d580-11e2-8c8a-001a4bcf887a.html">http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/news/local/article_23db1c78-d580-11e2-8c8a-001a4bcf887a.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 18px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We would find such a bill a real tragedy,” said Tony Stewart, a member of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, which has been encouraging local governments to adopt anti-bias ordinances. “Our hope is that our Legislature would not support such legislation.”</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 18px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stewart said the task force believes that no citizen should be a second-class citizen, and that no American should be denied such vital services as a job or an apartment based on discrimination.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 18px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is a fundamental issue of democracy,” Stewart said.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">You remember Tony Stewart, dontcha V-peeps?</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Tony Stewart at "Finding the Center" conference in the Silver and Gold Room on the UI campus (November 5, 2011)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrI-eg6pPis">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrI-eg6pPis</a></span><br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Jun 16, 2013, at 12:25 AM, "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><span>Huh -- they are all for local control . . . except when they disagree with</span><br><span>local decisions. The hypocrisy and the bigotry is stunning. What a</span><br><span>shocker.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/06/15/2618552/gop-urges-lawmakers-to-eras">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/06/15/2618552/gop-urges-lawmakers-to-eras</a></span><br><span>e-lgbt.html</span><br><span></span><br><span>GOP urges lawmakers to erase LGBT protections</span><br><span></span><br><span>Published: June 15, 2013 </span><br><span></span><br><span>The Associated Press </span><br><span></span><br><span>MCCALL, Idaho - Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to</span><br><span>put a stop to local communities' efforts to provide discrimination</span><br><span>protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The approval of the non-binding resolution came Saturday at the GOP's annual</span><br><span>Central Committee summer meeting in McCall.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The GOP-dominated Idaho Legislature has refused to add housing and workplace</span><br><span>protections for gays and lesbians to the Idaho Human Rights Act.</span><br><span></span><br><span>As a consequence, numerous municipalities including Coeur d'Alene,</span><br><span>Sandpoint, Ketchum, Moscow and Boise are passing their own local</span><br><span>protections.</span><br><span></span><br><span>That didn't sit well with the majority of Republicans in McCall, who say</span><br><span>that Idaho lawmakers should put a stop to it.</span><br><span></span><br><span>According to the resolution, the Legislature should pass a law making local</span><br><span>discrimination protections unenforceable if they go beyond the state's</span><br><span>protections. </span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>