You Know You're Screwed When Steve Beshear Is Your Last Hope for Civil Liberties

Right now, supposed "liberal" Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson is alternately begging/threatening Gov. Cowardly Waste of Oxygen to sign the bill and thus avoid torpedoing Abramson's 2015 election chances.

Jack Brammer and Beth Musgrave at the Herald:

Human rights and fairness groups are pressuring Gov. Steve Beshear to veto a bill that they say would make it easier to discriminate against gay, lesbian and transgender people in Kentucky.

House Bill 279, sponsored by Rep. Bob Damron, D-Nicholasville, would strengthen a person's ability to ignore state regulations or laws that contradict his or her "sincerely held" religious beliefs. Damron has said that the measure mirrors a federal law passed in 1993 and that 12 states have approved similar laws.

The Senate approved the bill at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday on a 29-6 vote and sent it to Beshear for his consideration. He can sign it into law, veto it or let it become law without his signature.

Beshear said Friday afternoon that he hadn't made a decision about the bill.

Again, this bill is not about religious freedom, it's about religious coercion. And civil liberties groups are making a big fat mistake tying it to gay bashing. Steve Beshear doesn't give a flying fuck about the rights of LGBT people.

ead more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2013/03/08/2547842/kentucky-senate-sends-religious.html##storylink=cpy