Sam Brownback’s latest outrage: Governor strips LGBT state employees of non-discrimination pro

Sam Brownback’s latest outrage: Governor strips LGBT state employees of non-discrimination protectionsRight-wing governor takes time from dealing with budget mess to strike a blow for discrimination“Confronting a $344 million budget deficit following the failure of his supply side economic experiment, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is a busy man these days, further slashing education in a state that had already imposed among the largest cuts in the nation ,gutting the state’s pension system, and diverting funds from vital infrastructure programs in an effort to clean up the mess his tax cuts for the wealthy created. But amid all this, the governor still has time to deal with other matters, as he demonstrated today, with a quintessentially Brownbackian assault on the civil rights of LGBT Kansans.In a development that falls somewhere between “I can’t believe he hadn’t done this already” and “My God, what a monumental prick,” Brownback issued an executive order Tuesday removing gender identity and sexual orientation from the classes of protected Kansas government employees, which include race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry or age.Former Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius had extended the non-discrimination protections to LGBT employees during her tenure, but in issuing his own order today, Brownback said that “expansion of ‘protected classes’ should be done by the legislature and not through unilateral action.”Read the full piece here"Monumental Prick” Sam Brownback makes the news again today. If it’s not the War on Women, it’s the war on LGBTQIA+ people. U.S. READERS: If you’re not registered, SIGN UP TO VOTE -- source link

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