When a tolerant city can't support a simple statement of tolerance
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/1419166/19/09
I made it into the Anchorage Assembly chambers on Wednesday just about the time a Christian guy in a red shirt was testifying in detail about how gay people are into flogging. It was X-rated and creepy no matter how you cut it, but it was especially weird because my mom was in the room along with a lot of people carrying Bibles.
There had already been too many crazy-making, repetitive evenings of testimony about whether to add sexual orientation to the city's non-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance defined "sexual orientation" as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. It covered housing and employment. It was not breaking new ground. Similar ordinances exist in more than 100 cities. Some are 30 years old.
