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Phone: 859-255-5400
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Sponsored by Rep. Joe Fischer, R-Ft. Thomas
DESCRIPTION: This bill
would make civil rights issues a state legislative matter rather than a
local city or county concern. Though the bill does not specifically
address “sexual orientation,” most agree that it has been drafted in response
to the rash of controversial gay ordinances that have been passed in Louisville,
Lexington, and Henderson. The bill would, in effect, undo the gay
city ordinances passed in the summer of 1999.
STATUS: This concept was first discussed in November of 1999 by Rep. Tom Kerr, D-Taylor Mill, and was proposed by Rep. Fischer in the Assembly of 2000. The bill died in Rep. Gross Lindsay’s House Judiciary Committee without a hearing. |
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| SUPPORTERS SAY: Civil rights are too important to be turned over to pockets of activists who strive to gain control of certain local governments. State businesses need consistent statewide rights laws, not a patchwork based on special rights or sexual preferences. | OPPONENTS SAY: The bill is a clear attempt by homophobic citizens to undo the progress gained by the gay civil rights movement and should be quickly recognized as such and rejected. |
THE FAMILY FOUNDATION:
YES! This bill would extend a uniform civil rights code across the state
that would be consistent for all citizens and be determined by the people’s
duly elected officials. If passed, it would undo the recent “special
rights for gays” ordinances. The Family Foundation is for equal rights
for all citizens, but not special rights for any, particularly rights based
on sexual practices. (See HB
116.)
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