Ethics

Another Loopy Anti-Gay State Legislator

By Ed Brayton

Sally Kern, Gerald Allen, Chris Buttars - you've got company. Meet Jeff Wagner, a state representative from Ohio who thinks that if you don't fire gays from their jobs and refuse to rent or sell a home to them you're "encouraging homosexuality." The Ohio legislature is considering a bill called the Equal Housing and Employment Act, which would forbid anti-LGBT discrimination in housing and employment and Wagner is simply verkelmpt over it. Long excerpt from an email he sent out below the fold:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).