This man is going to be known as the most divisive and possibly the stupidest governor Kansas has ever had. First he falls head-over-heels in love with Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics and implements policies to put them in place, which results in his state losing tax revenue by billions of dollars, causing deep pain to Kansas’s poorest citizens.

Then he and his pet legislature put daily limits on the amount of cash welfare recipients can get from ATMs in any one day, and he then denied he had anything to do with it (except for signing the legislation, of course).

Now he’s let his state in for endless lawsuits by issuing an executive order stating no agency of state government can take action against clergy or religious organizations which deny services to LGBTQ couples as long as they say they are denying those services because of their religious beliefs.

Meh. This is a paper tiger, right? Well, no.

The order explicitly protects religious organizations that provide “social services or charitable services,” meaning that it extends beyond the wedding ceremony.

The order means “a homeless shelter that received a state contract or grant could refuse family housing to a gay couple with a child, or a foster care agency could refuse to place a child in their custody with the child’s family member just because the family member was in a same-sex relationship – and the state could not require them to treat all families equally,” said Micah Kubic, executive director of the Kansas chapter of the ACLU.

Or gay couples trying to adopt could be refused. Or some Catholic hospital could refuse a dying AIDS patient’s partner the right to be at his bedside.

Brownback might be the nastiest dumbest governor in the country right now. That’s saying something since he’s a governor at the same time as Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Phil Bryant of Mississippi, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and Greg Abbott of Texas.