Coming Out Against SB 128? Not Likely for District 6 Representatives.

The Senate continues to show their close-minded and bigoted beliefs with bills like SB 128.  In fact as Cory Heidelberger reports that Republican lawmakers like Representative Ann Hajek from Sioux Falls and Senator Reid Holien from Watertown are apologizing for their parties actions.  Can we expect the same from the District 6 Senator and Representatives?  I doubt it.  Isaac Latterell has been quite about these issues on his update blog.  So far he and Herman Otten have not had the opportunity to vote on any of the discrimination bills coming out of the Senate.  Ernie Otten has been clear that he supports protecting people from the evils of same-sex advocates.  When discussing his support to Senate Bill 66 and 67, Ernie Otten responds to an upset individual with this statement, 

You are okay with the extremist radical activists & Progressive activist judges in other states punishing those Christians who hold a deeply-held Biblical belief, thereby forcing them into financial ruin rather than allowing them to live in peace with their moral convictions. It’s become a way for the extremists on the left to push their radical agenda of intolerance of someone else's conscience.

It is clear that extremists on the right like Ernie Otten are willing to push their intolerance on someone else's conscience.  I am pretty sure that is what he was trying to say.  

As one individual asked Mr. Otten, who has now refrained from making any other comments,  

Mr. Otten you write about, "radical activists & Progressive activist judges in other states punishing those Christians who hold a deeply-held Biblical belief, thereby forcing them into financial ruin rather than allowing them to live in peace with their moral convictions." Please in all honestly cite a case where this has occurred, the reasoning behind it, and how supporting the persecution of homosexuals who now wish to live in peace free of state action condoning discrimination is any different than these Christians you claim to protect. And what about those individuals who use "religious preferences" to also discriminate against people for racial or gender reasons. Or do they also get to hide behind their religion and "live in peace"?

Unfortunately it seems that facts simply do not matter to these Republicans.  They have proven it over and over on several different issues.