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Think the Arizona gay ban is ridiculous? It's already legal to discriminate against gays in Pa and a legislator from Lancaster County is pushing further

The GOP has gone off crazier than usual. A PA state representative has proposed a constitutional amendment allowing discrimination as long as it is based on sincerely held beliefs.
PA State Rep. Gordon Denlinger, a Republican from Lancaster County, is looking for cosponsors to a proposed constitutional amendment that some say would allow Arizona-style discrimination right here in Pennsylvania.
“I plan to propose a new section in Article I — the Pennsylvania ‘Bill of Rights’ — that will prohibit government from punishing an individual or entity if the individual or entity makes hiring or other employment decisions, or provide services, accommodations (including housing accommodations), advantages, facilities, goods or privileges based on sincerely held beliefs,” Denlinger wrote in a Jan. 8 memorandum to his House colleagues.
Under Denlinger’s proposed amendment, “an individual or entity may not be found to have discriminated in making employment related decisions or providing services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges if the action was based on the sincerely held beliefs of the individual or entity,” he wrote.

Turkey Hill re-opens its remodeled Prospect Road store

The Turkey Hill Minit Markets store at 1199 Prospect Road, Columbia, re-opened its doors Thursday after a renovation and expansion that took more than 12 weeks.
Now 4,500 square feet, the store has an updated décor and broader selection of products.
New offerings include hot pizza, available in 14-inch pies or by the slice,  and an upgraded coffee brewing system.
The cost and other details of the renovation and expansion, which began Dec. 1, were not immediately available.
Open 24 hours a day, the Prospect Road store employs 25 people.
Turkey Hill will hold a grand re-opening for the store on Friday, March 14, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lancaster-based Turkey Hill has 61 convenience stores in Lancaster County. The first opened in 1967.

Columbia K-9 program 'on hold' amid heated conflict

Columbia Borough Mayor Leo Lutz said Monday the plan to have a new K-9 officer and handler in place by spring is “on hold.”
His statement prompted outbursts from members of both council and the Columbia K-9 Committee, a nonprofit organization that defrays the cost of the borough’s K-9 officer.
Mike Beury, council president, told Lutz that it was time to “tell the truth.”

Still waiting for a monument to Wrightsville's unknown defender

Last year, a group gathered to dedicate a new grave marker for an unknown Rebel soldier who died on the banks of the Susquehanna.
Why has it not enacted any monument to an unknown man who died helping to preserve that union?