Conservative Idaho lawmakers craft bill protecting business owners who refuse service to anybody whose lifestyle conflicts with their religious belief.

Courtesy of KBOI2:  

Idaho lawmakers and conservative Christian allies who contend faith is under siege by gays, lesbians and the government are launching a "pre-emptive" strike to bolster rights of licensed professionals to refuse service or employment to those they conclude violate their religious beliefs. 

On Tuesday, Rep. Lynn Luker outlined a plan to shield religious people from the threat of having their professional licenses - issued for everything from midwives and doctors to physical therapists and nurses - revoked. 

Luker, a Boise Republican, knows of no example in Idaho of an actual challenge to a professional's license on these grounds. Still, he points to efforts by gays and lesbians elsewhere seeking to end what they contend is discrimination against them as a sign Idaho must act quickly to protect the faithful before something similar arises closer to home. 

"This is pre-emptive," Luker said. "The issue is coming, whether it's 10 years, or 15 years, or two years."

Yeah it's never too early to go into a full blown homophobic panic.  I mean if you wait the next thing you know some queer couple will want to gas up at your service station and YOU WILL HAVE TO GIVE IT TO THEM!

 I swear these idjits act like homosexuality is an air born virus like influenza. 

First you rent a room to a gay couple and the next thing you know you've opened a cake decorating business.

All I have to say is that there are few books that I know of that make my gay-dar go off as intensely as the New Testament. I mean the guy had long hair, wore a smock, hung out with 12 male "friends," and never once tried to bang Mary Magdalene.

In my book that suggests that somebody may have been a little light in the sandals.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. You know, unless you are a conservative homophobe from Idaho that is.