(Rep. Lynn Luker, R-Boise, pictured) brought the House State Affairs Committee two bills: One to prevent any kind of professional or occupational license from being revoked or suspended due to actions the license holder takes in accord with “sincerely held religious beliefs.” The other would amend Idaho’s existing Free Exercise of Religion Act to expand it to cover cases in which the government isn’t involved, but one of the parties is relying on a government law or enactment; he said that’s in response to a New Mexico decision in which a photographer was fined for violating that state’s human rights law by refusing to photograph a same-sex marriage ceremony. He said that case arose because in New Mexico’s anti-discrimination law, that state “actually has added the words to prohibit discrimination on sexual orientation”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: I wonder how this legislation would work, if passed, in cities like Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint and Moscow that have expanded anti-discrimination ordinances to include protections for gays?