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Bill Headed to Vote in State Senate Would Gut Missoula’s Anti-LGBT Discrimination Ordinance. 

In a letter to Montana state Senators, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today expressed concerns about the constitutionality of a proposed bill that would make it unlawful for any city or town in the state to pass a law protecting transgender, lesbian, gay or bisexual Montanans from discrimination. House Bill 516 – which was voted out of the Senate Local Government Committee last Friday afternoon after passing the House of Representatives last month – would bar local governments from passing laws prohibiting discrimination on any grounds not already protected under Montana state law. It is expected to be voted upon in the full Senate shortly, perhaps as early as Tuesday, March 22. Because sexual orientation and gender identity and expression are not included as protected classes under Montana state law, HB 516 would strike down local legal protections from discrimination upon which transgender, lesbian, gay and bisexual Montanans rely. Among the laws that would be affected by HB 516 is Missoula’s non-discrimination ordinance. Read full TLDEF article here.

I am really wondering if the really complacent part of the LGB community in my country is aware, that, once such a bill is passed, it might well start a kind of tsunami in that direction. And by the way, who says that it will stop on LGBT minority? There are far more minorities whose protections could be swiped away buy the will of a stupid politician!

More on the same subject.

Bill to nullify Missoula anti-gay discrimination ordinance may die in committee
Senate panel OKs bill to override Missoula’s anti-gay discrimination ordinance
http://www.towleroad.com/2011/02/mt.html