Back in November, the Oklahoma City Council overwhelmingly approved a measure to add sexual orientation to the city’s employment nondiscrimination policy. The ordinance was a common-sense measure that basically ensured that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and Brittany Novotny could work for the city and be protected from discrimination.
Now, only a couple of months after the city council’s decision, the doorkeeper of the Oklahoma wacko movement, Mike Reynolds, has introduced legislation to limits the rights of city employees. He’s doing it because obviously the state of Oklahoma knows what’s better for municipal city employees than the cities do…and because he’s a homophobic asshole.
From the Norman Transcript:
A state representative who has previously pledged to return Oklahoma to traditional Judeo-Christian precepts has authored a bill which would strip rights from Norman and other municipalities if passed.
State Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, introduced House Bill 2245 to limit nondiscrimination ordinances for municipal employees by restricting those protections to only those also provided for state employees under Oklahoma statute. If approved, the act would become effective Nov. 1.
HB 2245 is scheduled to be heard by the House Judiciary Committee on Monday. Calls seeking comment from Rep. Reynolds Friday were not returned.
Go figure. Right when we make some actual social progress in this state, Mike Reynolds wakes up and tries to take us back to the 1800s. Why’s he so scared of gay people? This is the second anti-gay bill he’s introduced this sessions. The other one would have reinstated “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the Oklahoma National Guard. It fortunately didn’t make out of committee. Hopefully this one has the same fate.
Anyway, Mike Reynolds is quickly becoming my favorite least-favorite person in the state of Oklahoma. He looks like the type of guy who wears a cheap suit to Wal-Mart and writes a check at Western Sizzlin’. And he’s such a hypocrite. He screams about government intrusions on the rights and liberties of people and then turns around and introduces legislation that limits the rights and liberties of people simply because they are different than him.
Seriously, what’s wrong with Mike Reynolds? Was he forced to watch lavish show tunes as a child? Did he come down with food poisoning after eating homemade cupcakes? Did he have a bad experience when he went Lake Hefner to go fishing? Maybe he’s trying to let people know he’s not Jerry Sandusky’s brother. Nothing would surprise me.
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I heard he had a bad run-in at Hobie Point…
What a faggot
Failed yesterday:
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You know, for a legislature that gets pissed when the feds tell the state what to do, it seems rather hypocritical to act as a state body to tell the cities what to do. I imagine that a couple of tea party republicans (one or two, whatever was required to get the bill killed in committee) agreed with Mike’s basic sentiment, but couldn’t stomach the thought of telling a municipal body who it could or couldn’t discriminate against.
Republicans are not the only ones … Some yellow dog dem are just as bad .. Its the legislature thinking of ” my way or the Highway “
He just acts like you can do anything you want as long as it is the same thing that he would do. If you want to do something different, then you are a problem, so we have to write a law to control you.
Definitley a case of protesting too much
Progress, Patrick? Bwaaah. Good luck with that. Hell, it’s progress in this state if voters can keep nutjobs like Reynolds from writing bills making it illegal for women to go out at night by themselves — without their husbands, of course.
He looks like the type of guy who wears a cheap suit to Wal-Mart and writes a check at Western Sizzlin’.
–Greatness. The franchise should be revoked for THOSE folks…
To all that responded negative to this story. Poor little things that has nothing better to do than make up lies, because they don’t know the truth. How simple it is to be stupid like, fakemaryfallin, Ron Burgundy, rawheadrex, Jon Hater, and Ogle Mole who is the biggest fool of all with his pathetical story of the baby’s mother, shame on all of you. And for the one who wanted to through their baby in a mud hole for money, shows what you think of your child, it almost killed Aleah, but you go ahead Goat Head.
Comment of the day! Bravo! Favorites are:
1) Clearly, this comment like, belongs on this story
2) It’s so clear that this comment belongs on this story because of like, naming commenters that like, commented on the story.
3) Negative is the bestly adverb ever.
4) The idea that it’s even possible for someone who “don’t know the truth” to lie. Sounds like an apt criticism of Mike Reynolds like, to be sure.
5) Exceptional commentary on the parenting skills of “the one” who “wanted” to “through” “their” baby in a mud hole. That isn’t good parenting. Zing.
6) To continue, Amy asserts that “throughing (sic) their (sic) baby in a mud hole for money” almost killed Aleah. Wait… I thought that was a tornado. Or was it Mike Reynolds?
7) “Go ahead, Goat Head” is now my go-to comeback to anyone who I want to flame online.
Bravo like, Amy Crago, tell us exactly it is to be stupid like, those people.