birch paper

“completely intolerant”

From Rep. Frank Sapareto’s new bill:

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, including a business owner or employee thereof, shall be required to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges to an individual if the request is related to the solemnization, celebration, or promotion of a marriage and providing such services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges would be a violation of the person’s conscience or religious faith.

This bill gives Granite Staters the legal right to discriminate against others.

For example, if the wedding caterer’s “conscience” opposes interracial marriages, he can legally refuse to do business with an interracial couple.

And this, which (spoiler alert) is not parody:

(Rep. Sapareto) said he’s been called a bigot for raising the issue. “They’re completely intolerant,” Sapareto said of opponents.

25 January 2012 ·