I Don't Believe This
Feb. 7th, 2003 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanA bill was introduced in the Minnesota legislature yesterday that would remove from the Minnesota Human Rights Act the mention of sexual orientation, and specifically withdraw sexual orientation as a protected category in hate-crime law, and allow discrimination in housing, employment, and so on, on the basis of gender orientation (including transexuality). If this passes, we will be the only state ever to first extend such protections to GLBT people, and THEN TAKE THEM AWAY. God help us. That language only got added in 1993 in the first place. At least that made us very slightly less barbaric than a lot of other places.
I got my information from the Human Rights Campaign. If you Google for them, you can find their website with more information. I've written to my representatives already.
I cannot believe this. It's bad enough to feel about my country that I am ashamed to be here and would like to go somewhere else, but to feel it about my adopted state as well is well-nigh intolerable. What a nightmare.
(I don't want to argue about hate-crime laws. Please. As long as we have such things, removing their protection from certain groups is disgusting and invitational. Jesus Christ.)
Pamela
I got my information from the Human Rights Campaign. If you Google for them, you can find their website with more information. I've written to my representatives already.
I cannot believe this. It's bad enough to feel about my country that I am ashamed to be here and would like to go somewhere else, but to feel it about my adopted state as well is well-nigh intolerable. What a nightmare.
(I don't want to argue about hate-crime laws. Please. As long as we have such things, removing their protection from certain groups is disgusting and invitational. Jesus Christ.)
Pamela
