Update: ‘Add The Words’ Bill Nixed

Idaho lawmakers have killed legislation to provide civil rights protections to gays on a straight party-line vote, with all 13 Republicans on the House State Affairs Committee voting against the bill, and just the panel’s four Democrats backing it. “We have come a long way,” said Rep. Ken Andrus, R-Lava Hot Springs, who made the motion to kill the bill, after three days of intense, emotional testimony. “I think this very hearing has brought us a long, long, way. I wish every employer, I wish every landlord could have heard your stories, and I think they will, through this hearing, I think they will hear your stories.” “Do not despair,” Andrus told backers of the bill who, for a fourth straight day, filled the Capitol’s largest hearing room, the Lincoln Auditorium. “I think we will have legislation”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: There is talk of compromise on this issue. Can you think of a compromise worth pursuing?