Utah Senate: No hearing for anti-discrimination bill

Dan82 · Mar 1, 2011

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A bid to force a Senate committee hearing on a bill intended to protect gay and transgender Utahns from employment and housing discrimination failed on a party-line vote Monday.

Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, tried the procedural move to force the hearing after it had been blocked in the Senate Rules Committee for more than three weeks.

McAdams said there is discrimination occurring and the consideration of SB148 would give gay and transgender Utahns hope and assurance the law will protect them.

“Some of you may worry about the controversy and hateful e-mails you might receive,” McAdams said. “I believe the dialogue will be respectful and it will be constructive. … I refuse to accept that religious liberty is incompatible with protection of gay and transgender people in their home and on the job...

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Utah Senate: No hearing for anti-discrimination bill

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