But it’s not Black people they’re seeking to oppress (unless you happen to be Black and gay).

According to a post on NECN:

The Republican majority on the House Judiciary Committee backed a plan that bars Missoula and other cities from establishing their own criteria for those protected from discrimination, sending the proposal to the full House floor with a decisive 13-7 vote.

The panel on Monday also voted against a plan backed by Democrats to add protections for “gender identity or expression and sexual orientation” to the statewide anti-discrimination law that forbids discrimination based on race, religion and several other factors.

The message is clear.  If you’re not white and straight, then Montana doesn’t want you!  Isn’t it grand to know that discrimination is still something that can be legislated!

Read more of the above story here!

Then what will they be doing on Thursday Feb 3 at the National Prayer Breakfast founded and sponsored by the notorious gay-bashing “The Family” fringe far right group? (I ask this as a practicing progressive Christian and repentant former religious right leader).

Yes, that’s the same folks who’s key members here and in Africa are mired in the Uganda kill the gays legislation!

Yes, that’s the same folks who long ago used their US government/hard right contacts to try and get the US Government to cozy up to fascist dictator-for-life Franco of Spain.

Yes, that’s the “C-Street” adulterers club in Wash DC that coddles far right philandering Republicans and protects them when they cheat on their wives, not to mention on their country by using their senator and congressmen members to export the worst of American fundamentalism abroad using quasi-governmental auspices.

These are the folks that the evangelicals and others have been in bed with for years at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Why?

It’s about access to power, stupid!

More at: Huff Po!