Anti-gay Kansas Democrat peeves party; in Tuesday's election Democrats can replace her with Erich Bishop, gay son of former white supremacist

Note: The following occurs against a backdrop of more nasty infighting between reactionary and moderate wings of Kansas' GOP.
    Kerri Ann Rinker, of the National Organization for Women in Kansas, has been following House incumbent (since 1992) Jan Pauls, of Hutchinson, who is running for reelection in Tuesday's vote. 

Representative Pauls is another one of those anti-choice Democrats that pervades the Kansas political landscape. She has served in the Kansas Legislature since 1992 and has used her time there to sponsor numerous anti-choice bills. She wrote a law prohibiting same sex marriage in the state, backed the successful state constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage, and blocked the attempted repeal of Kansas’ antiquated sodomy ban. 

     ...This time around, Jan Pauls and her “religious freedom” have earned her a Democratic primary opponent, and that primary opponent is gay.
     Erich Bishop is a member of the Kansas Equality Coalition, a gay rights organization that has waged a full on political war against Pauls for her public statements, votes and actions against the gay community.

     Pauls' support of HB 2260, which allows individuals the right to sue for perceived “religious discrimination” under local non-discrimination ordinances that afford protections to LGBT citizens and her comments insinuating that LGBT people can't be trusted with children elicited this reponse from Democrat Annie Kuether, who also sits on the Judiciary Committee:

This bill was introduced last year by those that don’t agree with same sex marriage, now here we are again same bill, same language, but we’re talking about freedom of religion. This isn’t about freedom of religion, it’s about freedom to discriminate.  I believe that it’s severely overstepping the separation of church and state and the right of local control.

State Party Chair Joan Wagnon seconded that: 

 “In the last couple of weeks HB 2260 has gotten a lot of press attention and has caught people up in a controversial discussion about what it means.  It is about civil rights and it is targeted at members of the gay community.  It just seems to me to be wrong, in fact, it is repugnant and hateful.  We don’t support the passage of legislation that takes away human rights.  One of our legislators, Jan Pauls, has been outspoken on this issue and she has supported these issues... but I need to make it clear that what the KDP (Kansas Democratic Party) believes.  We believe in our platform and we do not support HB 2260.”  

     Word on the street is that Mr. Bishop stands a very good chance of beating Hutchinson's standing Democratic incumbent.    

     ...In the meantime, you will find Jan Pauls living in her church and praying for a win in her August 7th Democratic primary election.