Loertscher: ‘Stop The Cruelty’

Before the vote to reject the “Add the Words” legislation, House State Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, said: “Every member of this committee has changed because of this process. None of us here, as we’ve gone through this hearing, can honestly say that we have not been changed in our hearts and in our minds, because we all have. I don’t know the right word to use when it comes to the cruelty that has been experienced by people who testified here today. And I have to tell you that there’s no excuse for that cruelty, and as the chairman of this committee, and as an Idahoan, and as a legislator, I’m calling on the people of this state to stop the cruelty. It has no place in our society. And as a result of that, I’m calling on people everywhere to get over themselves, get on, get past all this, and to be less cruel or more favorably stated, kind in your approach to people who you may perceive that are different from you.”

Thoughts?