Bergevin Wants New Hampshire to Discriminate Against Gays, Blacks, Jews

How long has this ignoramus been in office? If it's more than one term, than shame on all of you who voted him in more than one time

A perfect example of a complete waste of time....the bill, and the crackpot who wrote it.

Kinda goes against NH's state motto "Live Free or Die"

next it will be a law allowing people to burn witches or anyone that doesn't believe as the majority believes...
HATE IS HATE and it's not the part of the government to provide legal cover for bigots!

With all the important issues our nation faces, the republican right wing bigots put this nonsense front and center, as solution(s)!

So as a businessman I can refuse service to anyone who displays a Jesus fish on their person or vehicle. Sounds good to me.

Bergevin, thank you.

For making our Oklahoma politicians look not so retarded.

New Hampshire lawmakers are pondering bill HB 1264, which would allow any business providing services related to marriage to deny service to anyone if the owners felt religiously motivated to do so.
This stupidity is from our alleged leaders is why this nation is going to hell in a hand basket. There are real serious issues we are facing in this nation and this is just fluff crap to avoid dealing with their JOBS. This idiot works for GAY CITIZENS as well. In fact our leaders need to be reminded that they are to protect the freedoms of ALL CITIZENS. What's next? Asking " colors" to sit in the back of the bus ?

Doesn't matter what the state law says, they'll still get sued for discrimination under federal law.

Discrimination is sickening, it is sad to see that America still lets Cults run it.

Leave it to the gop to make the independents hate them more and more. This kind of divisive #$%$ will send the gop into extinction.

And the "good Christians" used to hang the uppity darkies from the nearest streetlamp. Today's American "Christians" do everything they can to prevent a national health care program that would allow every citizen to have access to health care. Yeah, Christianity is great.

Hey, does that mean I can discriminate against christian republicans because of my religious beliefs? I am sure that's not what people like him mean or expect, but just wait until the first time it happens and they will be the loudest whiners.

Wow, and the republicans want to put more Jesus into our government. Does anyone read the Constitution anymore?

these are the same tea party people who think there is a war on religion.....but they can hate in the name of God

Why is our country being run by a bunch of mentally retarded people?

Every decent person must hate discrimination of any kind,but has it ever occured to all of you decent commenters that all of the laws which have been passed haven't really made a dent in the amount of actual discrimination which takes place daily, but has been a windfall for all of the lawyers? Lawyers are busy writing laws for Lawyers.Lawmakers are very busy writing new laws every year which fill up our courts at every level every day.The United States of America has more Lawyers than there are everywhere else in the world combined! Isn't that a shocker, and if not, it should be.Hundreds of New Laws at every level of Government every year are just another Government Work Program for the legal profession and I for one am just sick of it!!

New Hampshire is the LEAST religious state in the Union, so if they passed that bill, it would have to be for different reasons.

I find it interesting that this is a one-sided article. First of all, it should be remembered that this is a writer's opinion and the writer is not a declared expert on the issue. As a journalist, I have learned that there is always more than one side of a story. For example, what is the exact language of the bill? What is defined by the term "businesses related to marriage"? Is it, in fact, protecting the rights of someone who does not believe in gay marriage so they aren't forced to perform a ceremony that goes against their beliefs? If so, shouldn't these peoples' rights be just as protected as someone else as free American citizens? Second of all, the writer seems biased against people who do not believe in evolution. People should be free to speak up for what they believe in or not believe in. This is why we fought the British--for the right to be free of persecution. This is also why we create laws and pass laws--to define what the people, as a majority want defined. Third, some of this writer's claims regarding religious beliefs is incorrect. The bible does not say that the Jews, as a whole, were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ, but that their leaders were. The leaders of the Jews were becoming wealthy off of others and were threatened by Christ's teachings. Do not forget that Christ's followers and disciples were also Jews. People and groups have used this as a term to refer to all Jews, so that they feel justified in hunting, killing, and persecuting them. Should any people be held accountable for the actions of their leaders? Should every German be hunted and killed for their Nazi leaders' role in creating and executing a holocaust that took the lives of millions of people? We must be careful to investigate issues and claims for ourselves rather than be led by one or two people's personal interpretations. Then we can make a better informed choice of what we believe, ourselves.

Welcome to the 1800's where only people who have rights are straight, white, rich men