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NE, USA: Lincoln Considers LGBT Non-Discrimination Ordinance

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Lincoln, Nebraska may follow Omaha in passing an ordinance protecting LGBT people from discrimination, and will be officially proposed later this month, supporters announced at a news conference yesterday, the Journal Star reports:

The proposal would extend legal anti-discrimination protection in Lincoln to gays and transgender people in housing, employment and public accommodations.

“As a person of faith who practices the peaceable, inclusive religious principles of the Jesus movement, discrimination has no basis because God shows no partiality,” said the Rev. Karla J. Cooper, pastor of Quinn Chapel and chaplain at Doane College. “It is a divine mandate and imperative to pass the fairness ordinance in the city of Lincoln,” Cooper said to the more than 40 people gathered in support…

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NE: Omaha Passes Non Discrimination Ordinance

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Today, after weeks of debate, the Omaha City Council passed an ordinance that will protect LGBT individuals from discrimination in employment and public accommodations with a 4-3 vote.

Mayor Jim Suttle has promised to sign the changes into law. A poll found last year that 90 percent of U.S. voters believe that such employment protections already exist at the federal level, but as GLAAD points out in a new Delta Sky Magazine ad, individuals can be fired for their sexual orientation in 29 states and gender identity in 34 states.

Full Story from Think Progress

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NE: Omaha to Consider Gay Rights Ordinance

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Omaha City Councilman Ben Gray will introduce a proposal today to expand legal protections to Omaha’s gay, lesbian and transgender community.

Omaha currently has no laws that protect people against discrimination based on sexual orientation. But there are protections based on race, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, age or disability. Gray’s proposal would simply add sexual orientation and gender identity to that protected list.

“We’re talking about citizens who start businesses, who protect and serve our country, who serve on our police and fire and city government operations,” Gray said in an interview with KVNO News. “We’re talking about people who hire people; we’re talking about people who provide and pay for goods and services, (who) provide resources to our economy… So they should have the same rights as everyone else.”

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NE: Anti Gay Rights Bill Put on Hold in Senate

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

A Nebraska Senate panel won’t act on a bill outlawing local municipalities from enacting gay protections laws, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Brad Ashford said Wednesday that the panel was unlikely to act on Senator Beau McCoy’s measure which seeks to block cities and counties from enacting anti-discrimination rules beyond those which the state has approved.

Introduction of the bill coincided with a proposal before the Omaha City Council which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the areas of employment and service providers such as restaurants, hotels and bars. The proposal would exempt religious organizations.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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NE: State May Outlaw Local LGBT Protections

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Nebraska will debate a bill which would bar local municipalities from enacting laws protecting gay and transgendered people, the AP reported.

Introduction of state Senator Beau McCoy’s measure coincides with a proposal before the Omaha City Council which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the areas of employment and service providers such as restaurants, hotels and bars. The proposal would exempt religious organizations.

McCoy’s measure will be heard Wednesday before the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. Under the proposed legislation, cities and counties would be blocked from enacting anti-discrimination rules beyond those which the state has approved.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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NE: State Senator Wants to Eliminate All LGBT Rights Ordinances

Friday, January 20th, 2012

A new debate is brewing at Omaha City Hall and in the State Capitol over who can qualify as a “protected class” under discrimination laws. City Councilman Ben Gray says he plans to place a measure to ban discrimination against homosexual and transgender people on the council’s agenda — as early as the end of the month or by late February.

But an Omaha state senator wants to bar cities and local governments from unilaterally creating such protected classes. Instead, the bill would grant such authority solely to the state.

The conflicting proposals are likely to reignite debate about more than a municipality’s rights. The conversation will center on sexual orientation, the rights of private enterprise, religion and civil rights.

Full Story from Omaha.com

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NE: Mormon Gay Bashing Goes Back Decades

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Prop 8 wasn’t the Mormons’ first time to the hate dance. They’ve been bankrolling anti-gay legislation for at least two decades. Here is one Mormon’s story about how they helped push DOMA in the state of Nebraska.

“I lived in Nebraska when a petition drive was held there to get DOMA on the ballot. At church we were not even asked if we wanted to gather signatures. We were handed packets (which I did not take) and several hours of our usual meetings were taken up with our bishop and stake president rallying the troops, so to speak – even sending people out on a Sunday gather signatures at the College World Series.”

Full Story from AmericaBlog

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Nebraska: Teenager Determined to Bring Marriage Equality to State

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

One year after filing the initiative petition to end the same-sex marriage prohibition in the state of Nebraska, Chris Dyer, 18, is more dedicated than ever in reaching the required 112,877 signatures to place the Constitutional amendment repeal onto the 2012 ballot.

…And the number of signatures required grows each day until the legal deadline for collection passes, because more Nebraskans register to vote every day.

“The idea — the true process for filing this petition — began back in ninth grade,” Chris said. “It was after I watched the movie Boys Don’t Cry that I knew I had to do this.”

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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NE: Opposition to Marriage Equality Drops to 51%

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Eleven years ago, a majority of Nebraskans roundly rejected the idea of gay marriage. Today, a slim majority of Nebraskans statewide still oppose gay nuptials, but a majority in Omaha say they support the legalization of gay marriage.

Overall, Nebraskans’ position on all things gay appears to be softening, as strong majorities told a polling firm this month that they would accept a gay grandson, embrace a lesbian friend and support allowing gay couples to adopt children.

The poll of 616 Nebraska adults was conducted by the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research group. The survey was commissioned by the New York-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights group, and the Omaha-based group Citizens for Equal Protection.

Full Story from Omaha.com

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NE: Judge Won’t Let Lesbian Couple Divorce

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Further complicating the patchwork of marriage laws that exists in the United States, a Nebraska judge has ruled that because same-sex marriage is illegal in Nebraska, same-sex divorces aren’t allowed either.

Otoe County district judge Randall Rehmeier ruled that a lesbian couple legally married in Vermont eight years ago cannot be granted a divorce by the state of Nebraska because that state does not recognize same-sex marriage.

Full Story from The Advocate

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