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- From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
- Subject: GOOD NEWS: St. Louis Law
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:25:26 GMT
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- With all the legal setbacks and threats we've seen in the last year
- (Colorado & Oregon) it's nice to see some places moving forward:
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- Boston Sunday Globe; Dec 27, 1992
- "As others do battle, St. Louis give quiet nod to gay rights"
- J.L. Hazelton, Associated Press
- excerpts reprinted without permission
-
- The law bars discrimination in housing, credit, employment, education
- and public access on the grounds of physical or mental disability,
- race, religion, family status and sexual orientation.
-
- "It clearly is one of the strongest laws of the 130 we have in the
- US," says Robert Bray, a spokesman for the National Gay and Lesbian
- Task Force in Washington.
-
- Laws in many other cities and states are less comprehensive, he said.
- Some may protect homosexuals from housing discrimination, for example,
- but not job discrimination.
- ...
- The St. Louis board included a clause in its law to prevent it from
- being repealed by referendum, said James Wilson, the city's lawyer.
-
- Bray said that was unusual and praised the move.
-
- "Once you have granted civil rights, you can't take them away by
- popular vote," he said. "Women would still be in the kitchen; blacks
- would still be on the plantation."
-
- Mary Ross, the alderwoman who introduced the measure, said she was not
- trying to be a trailblazer. She simply wanted to update the city's
- civil rights protections.
-
- "I think we covered, hopefully, everybody in this legislation" who
- "could possibly be discriminated against in one manner or another, and
- that is the intent," she said. "It is not a gay-rights thing."
- ...
- The law also created a civil rights commission, which has the power to
- investigate, fine violators up to $500 and jail them for up to 90 days.
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