OHIO: Bowling Green Voters Approve Sweeping LGBT Rights Ordinances

[WillParkinson]

OHIO: Bowling Green Voters Approve Sweeping LGBT Rights Ordinances

Last year the city council of the college town of Bowling Green, Ohio instituted broad ordinances protecting LGBT residents from discrimination. Anti-gay Christian groups immediately forced the suspension of the new laws and had them placed on this year's ballot. The votes are finally in and it was close. Via press release from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force:

With the final vote now officially tallied, voters in Bowling Green, Ohio, have passed two ordinances protecting people from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and public education based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Last year, the city council added those categories to Bowling Green's Fair Housing Law with Ordinance 7905, and the Unlawful Discrimination Ordinance with Ordinance 7906. The majority of voters backed those ordinances, allowing LGBT people to be protected under the city’s nondiscrimination laws. According to the results released today, Ordinance 7905 passed 52.67 percent to 47.33 percent and Ordinance 7906 passed 51.65 percent to 48.35 percent. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force contributed to this victory through staff and financial support provided to One Bowling Green, the locally-driven, grassroots campaign that defended the nondiscrimination measures.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/11/ohio-bowling-green-voters-approve.html

[YOY]

1. Sad thing is, this is not a voting matter.

How sad that votes have to be taken to figure out if a minority is respected or not.

[RKP5637]

2. Why is it that christian groups are always about hostility toward other

people, suppression of rights and trying to dominate everyone. It's totally gross. I avoid christians like the plague and I know many that feel the same.

[Initech]

3. Seriously, I stopped going to a church like that a long time ago.

I mean the fundie Xtians are stupid and blind-sided by their hatred and idealogy that they really do seem like they're on another planet.

[RKP5637]

4. Yeah, many of these churches today seem more like inward cults IMO out to destroy the

"others." Not much love and kindness that I see/hear.

[Initech]

5. The way you just described that makes it sound like the exact plot of the show LOST.

:rofl:

[RKP5637]

6. LOL

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

7. K&R