BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers voted to halt a bill that would create protections for gay and lesbian people Thursday, siding with the concerns of religious freedom supporters. The House State Affairs Committee —made up of the Legislature's most conservative lawmakers— voted 13-4 to hold the bill in committee and prevent it from moving onto the House floor for a vote. The proposal would have included the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in Idaho's Human Rights Act. The movement peaked in 2014 after protesters disrupted the Statehouse with a series of civil-disobedience demonstrations —leading to more than 190 arrests throughout the session and forcing the hand of conservative legislative leaders, who conceded the time for a hearing had finally come. [...] Republican lawmakers decided that the bill's lack of definition of the addition of the four words was too great of a risk to the religious community.