Will Utah ever change?

Utah lawmakers decided last Friday that they will not pursue to pass a law that would ba discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the workplace and in housing. Rather, the officials say they will spend a year studying the matter. The officials and the LDS Church say they disapprove of discrimination, but don't think being gay should be legal.

This is outrageous to me. First of all, I'm almost positive that the Constitution does not say anything about the 'legality' of choosing to prefer a different sex than the majority of the population. Second of all, I think the actions of the officials could almost be considered a hate crime because they are deliberately allowing the discrimination of a whole population, and by not equalizing the playing field, endorsing the continued discrimination. Plus, they pulled such a lazy, pathetic move by pretending to actually care, and 'research' the situation. Postponing the passage, just like Congress postponed the slave issue, to continue to delay progress and ignore a real issue. Essentially, Utah has taken a step backwards about 5o years and decided not to just turn the other way on the whole issue of gay discrimination, but actually deny the passage of an anti-discrimination law. That's messed up, and in my opinion, completely unAmerican.

Links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/31utah.html?ref=politics

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=5202&MediaType=1&Category=26