But not just doctors.
Lynn Luker, a Republican representative in the Idaho state legislature from Boise, wants all businesses and professionals not to lose their licenses if they deny service to gays, lesbians and transgendered persons.
Well, not just LGBTs. Also unmarried mothers.
Under the legislation, which has already received unanimous approval from the House State Affairs Committee, teachers could refuse to instruct gay students in their classes.
But only for sincerely held religious reasons.
“We as a nation have almost divorced any association with a higher being,” Luker said. [...]
“But how do you prove your sincerely held beliefs?” asked state Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake. “Are you going to bring people to court?“
“Yes, if it comes to that,” Luker said.
The trouble with this proposal is that it doesn't go far enough.
Why should cops have to investigate burglaries or assaults against gays or unmarried mothers? Or, for that matter, divorced mothers?
Why should notaries or real estate agents or cosmeticians be at risk for losing their licenses just because they're f'n bigots?
Why should sincerely religious grocers have to sell potatoes to women who can't, as one would-be president recently noted, control their libidos?
Too many of these right-wingers like Representative Luker are really waaaay too soft. Somebody who really has sincerely held religious beliefs needs to primary them.