State Rep. Dave Kerner: "The answer isn't to legislate discrimination. This is 2015. It has got to stop at some point."

This article comes from the Public News Service and titled, "Indiana-style Discrimination in Florida?". From the article:

     Only weeks after the Florida House of Representatives overturned a ban on gay adoptions, that same branch of government is trying to pass a law that grants private adoption agencies the right to steer children away from same-sex couples based on religious beliefs.
     The so-called "Conscience Protection" bill is sponsored by state Representative Jason Brodeur (R-Sanford), [emphasis added] who wants to protect religious freedom and says it holds up constitutionally.
     "Homosexuals are not a protected class, they're not a suspect class, they're not a quasi-suspect class," says Brodeur. "They're a rational basis class, which receives the lowest level of scrutiny and certainly discrimination involving religion receives a much higher level. So, it has been upheld that this should be a good constitutional case."
     Critics say the bill is designed to discriminate against same-sex couples wishing to adopt. Several of them stood up against the law during discussion in the House Judiciary Committee last week and said it was designed to echo Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

At the end of the article you find out that this proposed legislation has no sponsor in the Florida Senate and will likely go away as so many bills like the "Conscience Protection" bill do. This bill by Jason Brodeur plays well with the base in his home district and he is a very popular state representative in District 28. However, considering what's happening in Indiana don't suspect too many Florida legislatures would welcome that terrible PR problem here in our state so dependent on tourism and tourist dollars.