A Republican lawmaker in the Wyoming state House of Representatives must have thought he was being cute, smart, and funny when he offered an amendment to a bill adding LGBT protections to Wyoming civil rights laws. He wanted to amend the bill to read that it would take effect when "hell freezes over." Well, Committee Chairwoman Rep. Elaine Harvey was not amused in the least, and she kicked him out of the meeting.
From the Casper Star Tribune:
Rep. Harlan Edmonds, R-Cheyenne, was kicked out of the House Labor, Health and Social Services meeting Friday, after proposing an amendment to the bill that would make it effective when “hell freezes over,” instead of the date of July 1.
Committee Chairwoman Rep. Elaine Harvey, R-Lovell, had started the Friday afternoon meeting insisting people would remain civil. She told Edmonds to leave after his comment, which followed a more than two-hour discussion in which he also asked the bill’s supporters why pedophilia wasn’t in the bill.
“We said civility would prevail,” Harvey said.
Senate File 115 passed with six representatives in favor and two in opposition.
Rep. Edmonds tried to register his vote on the bill, but Rep. Harvey said that his vote would not count since he had been ejected from the meeting.