By Mark Singer (Washington DC) FEB 21 | The Montana State House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that effectively nullifies the City of Missoula's 2010 ordinance, that protects LGBTQ residents as a protected class from discrimination, because of sexual orientation and gender.
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The Judiciary Committee voted 13-7 to endorse House Bill 516, authored by Representative Kristin Hansen (R-Havre), that would kill Missoula's LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance and prevent local municipalities in the state from enacting similar ordinances, or other policies like Missoula's that include, as a protected class from discrimination, any groups not included under the Montana Human Rights Act.
The GOP majority on the committee also voted to table HB 514, drafted by Representative Edie McClafferty (D-Butte), which would have prevented discrimination based on gender identity or expression and sexual orientation in an expansion to the state's Human Rights Act. The move to table that measure came after a motion to pass the bill failed.
Hansen's bill now goes to the full House for its consideration and a vote.
Related Article Here: LGBTQNation
Hansen's bill now goes to the full House for its consideration and a vote.
Related Article Here: LGBTQNation
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Mind boggling insanity...
What on earth do they really hope to achieve? Leave people without protection, particularly in the gun toting west, and you are asking for some serious trouble. Fools. Total fools.
Prepare ye for the Inquisition. Why oh why would any one in their right mind vote for something like this? Oh yeah, they are in their *Right* mind aren't they, and all that is left between them and us is common decency. They reap what they sow and they have sown the seeds of hatred and fear, again.
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