Utah’s governor Gary Herbert is an idiot.

[duckspeaker]

"We don't have to have a rule for everybody to do the right thing. We ought to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do."     
 If that were true, we wouldn’t need laws.

Herbert said. "Where do you stop? That's the problem going down that slippery road. Pretty soon we're going to have a special law for blue-eyed blondes."
“Slippery road

Comments

[tabbyfoo]

Ryan once said something similar. I was watching one of the animal cops shows I like to watch, and he was saying that he thought it was stupid that we have laws to prosecute people for animal cruelty.

Talk about a slippery road... Research shows that animal cruelty is often the marijuana of violent criminal behavior. (as in, it's the gateway to a lot worse things)

[boyplankton]

That protects your right to believe…whatever the hell you want?

Except it doesn't. For instance, if you are a bigoted business owner. Let's say that you have some narrow minded belief that women can't do a particular job, and you've established business policies around your narrow minded belief. A good example would be operating heavy equipment. Maybe you're worried that you couldn't live with yourself if a female bulldozer operator got hurt on your payroll? The why's aren't really important. My point is that the law doesn't protect your right to be a narrow minded bigot, it does it protect her right to operate a bulldozer.