Brownbag remains a douche.

[bnmc2005]

Kansas Governor Brownback issues religious objection executive order

[I tagged this story with 'opinion' because it was posted in Equality Kansas News by the Equality Kansas organisation. They are well informed and quoted the whole order. My personal note: I've known for years that Brownback is not only deeply religious conservative, he is in fact

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The rest of the order is more problematic. The plain language seems to suggest that religious organizations that have contracts to provide taxpayer-funded social services will be able to deny taxpayer-funded services to LGBT Kansans. We are still having this analyzed by our attorneys, but if this proves to be the case, the Governor should be prepared to find himself on the losing end of more expensive litigation.

Let's see. The two top-seeded christian conservative Republican hopefuls just stepped on a Duggar-shaped mine. Brownback does something which costs him nothing and becomes a conservative culture hero just as the primaries are starting - he has no shot at the top of the ticket, but whatever slightly to the left of Attila the Hun candidate they choose is going to need a VP who keeps the religious right happy.

Incidentally, he costs the people of Kansas money they don't have to defend lawsuits the state is ultimately going to lose. Brownback cares about this why? He's not paying the lawyers, and he gets to send fundraising letters asking for people to send him their social security checks as if he was paying the lawyers. Then he gets to hire all his unemployable relatives to sort the checks. How is this not a win / win for him?

Hell, remember the flying spaghetti monster? By itself, it probably wouldn't even keep him from being reelected in Kansas.