Some 250 people joined in a rally outside the Kansas Statehouse in
Topeka yesterday to protest against a proposed bill that would have
allowed religious-based discrimination against gays. The Lawrence Journal-World reports:
During Sunday's protest, which was
organized by the gay rights advocacy group Equality House of Topeka,
participants formed two lines behind signs labeled "Second Class
Citizens" and "Straight People." The lines went up the south steps of
the Capitol.
"We don't judge others," said Dee Moore, of Topeka. "We think all are God's children."
Jeremy Morgan, also a Topeka resident,
said when he first heard about the bill, it frightened him that he and
his spouse, who were legally married in Iowa, could be denied services.
"We don't want to be humiliated. We want to be treated like everybody else," Morgan said.
The negative publicity surrounding the Kansas GOP’s efforts to legalize discrimination appears to have worked, as several leading Senate Republicans in the state have now blocked the bill in its current form.
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