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Title: Bill strengthens gays' rights: Lawmakers try again to ban discrimination based o
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2008, 07:01:47 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2008, 07:01:47 AM
Bill strengthens gays' rights
Lawmakers try again to ban discrimination based on sex orientation
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:56 AM
By Jim Siegel
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/12/NoDiscriminate.ART_ART_03-12-08_B1_SH9K7P0.html?sid=101 (http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/12/NoDiscriminate.ART_ART_03-12-08_B1_SH9K7P0.html?sid=101)
Nothing in Ohio law stops companies from firing people because they are gay, just as there is nothing to stop landlords from refusing to rent to homosexuals.
Past legislative efforts to add protections for sexual orientation into state law have gone nowhere. That leaves people such as Jimmie Beall without a remedy from the state when they are fired for reasons they believe are directly related to their sexual orientation.
Lawmakers try again to ban discrimination based on sex orientation
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:56 AM
By Jim Siegel
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/12/NoDiscriminate.ART_ART_03-12-08_B1_SH9K7P0.html?sid=101 (http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/12/NoDiscriminate.ART_ART_03-12-08_B1_SH9K7P0.html?sid=101)
Nothing in Ohio law stops companies from firing people because they are gay, just as there is nothing to stop landlords from refusing to rent to homosexuals.
Past legislative efforts to add protections for sexual orientation into state law have gone nowhere. That leaves people such as Jimmie Beall without a remedy from the state when they are fired for reasons they believe are directly related to their sexual orientation.
Title: Re: Bill strengthens gays' rights: Lawmakers try again to ban discrimination based o
Post by: mickiejr1815 on March 12, 2008, 10:51:37 AM
Post by: mickiejr1815 on March 12, 2008, 10:51:37 AM
it's about damned time we get a bill that protects every one. i just wish they would always quit thinking that this is going to make everything worse. they are damn right the economy sucks MAJORLY in this state. my father lost his job 4 years, my father-in-law will lose his in june, and a former colleague of my wife's will probably lose his at the end of the year, plus gas is pushing $4.00 a gallon everywhere in the U.S. and it's Ohio really hard because of all the factory work we did have and has to left to go overseas to make things cheaper and less reliable to say the least. I hope this bill goes through without a fight, we need it. And someone who's actually going to back it up.
Mickie
Mickie