Anyone else notice that the GOP drafted legislation to make marriage a legal requirement for having children?  While in general it would stop all artificial methods of reproduction for any male/female couple that is not married, the bill was really designed to stop gay couples from having children.  Once you deny them marriage and immediately follow that with denying unmarried couples the opportunity for reproductive medical assistance, you have built a wall which has one clear message written upon it: you are not human.

While the law was a state endeavor in Indiana, you know the Republican party as a whole was salivating at the idea of implementing something like this nationwide (or, at least, hoping it would pass in each state).

Thankfully, after a significant public backlash, it was withdrawn.  Indiana state Senator Patricia Miller of Indianapolis said only, "The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission."

How often will we sit and watch conservatives try to legalize hate and discrimination before something is done about it?  In this case, something was indeed done about it — the moment the bill reached the public, the outcry overwhelmed them to the point that they stopped answering the phones.  In this case, we were lucky.

To attempt to legislate procreation in any way is disconcerting.  To do so as a blatant attempt to infringe on the rights of a specific group of people is unacceptable.  She'll keep her position though, I bet, and no one will blink when the next similar bill shows up somewhere else.  Why is this is OK?  More important than that, how do people who support such efforts still consider themselves humane in any way?

Equal protection under the law, but only if you're just like us.  How very Nazi-esque.  Should we warm up the baking ovens and get the gas flowing again?

[via Apostopher here and here]