Savage Love Episode 603
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.6 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.1 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:23.6 | You jinxed us, Associated Press. |
| 0:27.6 | On April 17th, the AP reported that laws aimed at rolling back LGBT civil rights |
| 0:31.9 | weren't getting anywhere, despite broad Republican majorities in many anti-gay states. |
| 0:38.4 | Quote, major legislation curtailing LGBT rights has been completely stymied in state |
| 0:44.4 | capitals around the country this year amid anxiety by Republican leaders over igniting |
| 0:48.8 | economic backlash if they are depicted as discriminatory, wrote David Crary, National News Reporter for the AP. |
| 0:55.9 | Quote, LGBT activists were tracking about 120 proposed bills that they viewed as threats to their civil rights. |
| 1:01.9 | Not one of them has been enacted, as many sessions now wind down, only to remain under serious consideration. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, those two anti-gay laws seem to have passed last week. |
| 1:14.8 | An anti-gay adoption bill was signed into law in Oklahoma, and that state's Republican governor |
| 1:19.6 | immediately signed it, and an anti-gay adoption law also passed in Kansas, and that state's |
| 1:25.4 | Republican governor has promised to sign it into law. |
| 1:28.5 | I don't know if these were the two bills making their way that the AP was referring to in their |
| 1:32.5 | report, but here we are, 120 proposed anti-LGBT laws down in flames, two passed. Both do pretty |
| 1:40.1 | much the same thing. They don't make it illegal for same-sex couples to adopt, which is crazy |
| 1:45.2 | unconstitutional, as some other states have learned. They just make it legal for private, religious |
| 1:51.5 | adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples. Courthouse news summarizes the Kansas |
| 1:57.5 | statute, which is identical to Oklahoma's. Kansas lawmakers stayed up late Thursday into early Friday morning to pass a law that protects adoption agencies that refuse to serve LGBT couples because of religious beliefs. |
| 2:11.0 | The Kansas Adoption Protection Act allows faith-based adoption agencies, ding, ding, ding, some of which receive public funding |
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