California Assembly passes bill to ask vendors about their sexuality

American Thinker ^ | 05/03/2012 | Lee DeCovnick

[SeekAndFind]

California Assembly Bill 1960 continues the radical gay political machine's carefully planned assault on personal privacy. Here is the bill's summary as written by the Legislative Counsel's Digest.

Existing  law requires the Department of General Services to make available a report on contracting activity containing specified information, including the level of participation of business enterprises, by race, ethnicity, and gender of owner, in specified contracts.

This bill would require the Department of General Services to include in the report on contracting activity information regarding the level of participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender owned  businesses in specified contracts, as provided.

What specified contracts?  Almost all contracts let out for bid by California including construction, purchases of materials, supplies, or equipment and professional services.

The bill was passed by the Assembly on an almost party line vote and sent to the State Senate.

And not so surprisingly, the bill says it's actually voluntary for contractors to report this information.  The "volunteerism" aspect is a clever device to provide cover for the liberal lap dogs in the MSM who have to report this unsavory tidbit of unholy tyranny.

From the Sacramento Bee:

The measure, Assembly Bill 1960, would enable the owners of businesses that contract with the state to identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It would not require them to do so.

The Assembly vote was 47-24, with only one Republican supporting it. The bill now heads to the Senate.

The Department of General Services currently is required to collect data on contractors by race, ethnicity and gender. AB 1960 would add LGBT-owned businesses to that list.

The bill by Sacramento Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson seeks data involving state contracts for construction, professional services, and for the purchase of materials, supplies or equipment.

[Vaduz]

Assembly Bill 1960, would enable the owners of businesses that contract with the state to identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

They don’t sak if someone is sane and normal?,oh I get it it’s California.

[Procyon]

I believe in California identifying yourself as a heterosexual IS a hate crime.

[libertarian27]

I have never been able to sit through that movie!

That movie was all the rage back in the late 70's - early 80's - thing was you HAD to watch it with others who knew the movie and what to say and do during it, even props were used - it was an event. It's not a movie anyone would suggest watching for the sake of it...Ishtar is better :)

It was silly and fun in the 80's - a midnight weekend treat when you weren't old enough yet to go to bars:) It was a party.