Kansas Senate Panel Advances Rights Bill
February 5, 2010 by James Hipps
Yesterday, a Kansas state Senate panel endorsed a bill that would prohibit discrimination in housing and employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, adding to the existing law that prohibits discrimination based on race, religious, color, sex disability, national origin or ancestry.
The Chairman of the Kansas Equality Coalition, Tom Witt, states this is an issue fairness. Witt’s group has been proposing the bill since 2005, and the bill has been up for Senate review in the past, but this is the first time it’s been endorsed and moved forward for further debate.
Could America’s heartland, with it’s strong anti-gay Evangelical base be progressing in equality? We can only hope!
I still stand by what I have always said, A person shouldn’t be discriminated against for their sexuality, or anything else for that matter. We are all unique in the eyes of the divine, or even in the eyes of our peers. It ain’t right that because someone is different that they should be “punished” for being such.
This is a bomb on the NOMs and CWA and AFA and MassResistance and the rest of the bigots. I can hardly believe that just a few years ago in Kansas the creationists were winning the battle in the schools. Seems some reality based people finally stood up and started sending sensible people whose understanding of science goes above the fifth grade level to the State House. THANK YOU KANSAS.