In the current (2015) session of the Wyoming Legislature, the most troublesome bill is Senate File 115, innocuously characterized as an "employment nondiscrimination" bill. Under the guise of tolerance, the bill proposes to add "sexual orientation or gender identity" to the list of legitimate legal protections, such as race, class, sex, age, and disability. Though the bill purports to offer an exemption to religious organizations, we, the undersigned, stand in opposition to the bill, for these reasons:

1. The religious exemptions are not broad enough, as evidenced by the very next clause of the bill, which qualifies them;
2. Private businesses owned by people of faith would have to comply witht he social engineering of the state, which is deemed more important than their natural rights to conscience and religious practice; and,
3. No state should elevate one class of "protected persons" above another, in this case, elevating persons with same-sex attraction above those who believe that such attraction deserves love, charity, and respect--but not special legal protection.

WE URGE THE WYOMING SENATE AND HOUSE TO DEFEAT SENATE FILE 115.