Day 3: ‘Add The Words’ Hearing

The House State Affairs Committee hearing on HB 2, the “Add the Words” bill, has recessed for the morning; it’ll reconvene at 3 p.m. “We will not be having a night session tonight, so we will go ‘til about 5 this afternoon,” said Chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona. This morning, 36 people have testified, 32 of them strongly in favor of the bill. Three spoke against it, and one was neutral. As he left, committee member Rep. Ken Andrus, R-Lava Hot Springs, said, “It’s very revealing, very, very revealing. I wish everybody in this state would hear this testimony”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here. Link to Betsy’s live-blogging here.

Also by Eye on Boise:

• Hearing will resume at 3
• All of us fear something
• That was discrimination
• Things I refuse to repeat
• Adults followed my 11YO son around
• Growing up gay in Idaho was difficult
• Without this bill, my son will not return to Idaho
• Imagine if Rosa Parks got off the bus to find another