Bill to nullify Missoula anti-gay discrimination ordinance may die in committee

Dan82 · Mar 24, 2011

http://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...cle_74a2dc51-4ef0-53d4-842a-797ef0009fdd.html

A Senate committee chairman said Wednesday that he intends to let die in his committee a controversial bill that would nullify Missoula's 2010 ordinance that bans discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.

Sen. Jon Sonju, R-Kalispell, who chairs the Local Government Committee, said he learned from representatives of Missoula that not a single discrimination complaint on these grounds had been filed against any businesses in the 11 months the ordinance has been in effect. As a result, Sonju said he said he sees no need for the bill at this time.

House Bill 516, sponsored by Rep. Kristin Hansen, R-Havre, had been approved by the House and then by Sonju's committee last Friday.

Yet on Tuesday, the full Senate voted 44-5 to return the bill to the Senate Local Government Committee, apparently to kill it...

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Zontar · Mar 24, 2011

Such bills are nothing more than pandering to religious conservatives. There's no other logical reason why someone would present such a thing.

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