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UT: Ogden Gay Rights Ordinance Ready for Review in Three Weeks

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

City Attorney Gary Williams has received the green light to begin drafting a municipal ordinance prohibiting housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Language for the ordinance was a topic of discussion during a 90-minute meeting Friday involving the administration, city council leaders and Equality Utah, a Salt Lake City organization that aims to secure equal rights and protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Utahns and their families.

Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, said she was pleased with the meeting and expects draft language of the ordinance to be ready for city council review within three weeks.

Full Story from the Standard-Examiner

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UT: Ogden Considers Gay Rights Ordinance

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Gay advocates in Ogden plan to press the city’s mayor for a new local ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden that she’s hoping to make progress on legal issues during the Jan. 7 meeting. Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey declined to comment on the issues to the newspaper.

Balken says she plans to press for an ordinance rather than a resolution because she wants any new law to have teeth.

Full Story from NECN

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UT: Two More Cities Pass Anti-Discrimination Measures

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Utah Anti DiscriminationTwo more Utah cities are adopting ordinances to protect gay and transgender people from discrimination. The city councils in Murray and Moab voted unanimously Tuesday to ban housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Equality Utah Executive Director Brandie Balken tells The Salt Lake Tribune that the measures reflect the values of Utah residents.

There are now nine Utah cities and counties with such ordinances.

Full Story from NECN

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UT: 2-3,000 Protest for Gay Rights Outside Mormon Church

Friday, October 8th, 2010

The LDS Church re-emphasized Thursday night that its doctrine on marriage and family is based on respect and love, as 2,000-3,000 people protested for gay rights and recognition in downtown Salt Lake City.

“Of course, the church recognizes the right of groups to voice their opinion in the public square. However, those familiar with the church’s doctrine on the importance of marriage and family know it is based on principles of respect and love for all of God’s children,” the church’s statement said. “We have continually emphasized that there is no room in this discussion for hatred or mistreatment of anyone.”

Protesters gathered at City Creek Park and then crossed over to public sidewalks to form back-to-back lines around Temple Square in a silent protest.

Full Story from Deseret News

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DC: Would GOP Win Put Anti Gay Mormon Republican in Position to Overturn Gay Marriage?

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

The Washington City Paper‘s new “The Sexist” blogger, Dave Weigel, has a profile out on Jason Chaffetz, the “proto-Tea Party” freshman Republican Congressman from Utah who is poised to head the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

That’s actually sort of funny, because this guy doesn’t like DC! For example, part of his platform when he ran for office in 2008 was to work to keep the District from getting a vote in Congress. Oh, and he wants to stick DC into Maryland and overturn the legalization of gay marriage.

For people who don’t think a national legislature ought to be mucking around in the nitty-gritty of local government, Chaffetz actually has a fix. It just that his solution doesn’t happen to lie along the D.C. statehood/legal autonomy: In Chaffetz’s idea, most of what we now call Washington, D.C., could become Washington, Maryland.

Full Story from Wonkette

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UT: State Supreme Court Validates Divorce for Couple Never Married; Could Impact Gay Marriage Fight

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

A Utah Supreme Court ruling issued Friday could open a door to recognition of gay marriage, polygamy and underage marriage in Utah, an attorney says. Denver Snuffer believes the ruling about a divorce decree will have wide-ranging and unintended implications for the concept of marriage. But his opponent, attorney Rosemond Blakelock, whose client won under the ruling, says such a belief is poppycock.

She said the high court’s decision will apply only in a very narrow fashion to one Utah couple and perhaps a few others who are in the same situation, but she predicts this ruling will not produce the “wild things” that Snuffer fears and will not influence unions that do not already exist under state law.

The Utah Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that a 4th District judge who issued a divorce decree to Neldon and Ina Johnson in 2001 did have the authority to do that.

Full Story from Deseret News

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UT: Anti Gay, Transgender Discrimination Law Takes Effect in Salt Lake

Monday, April 5th, 2010

An historic law that protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in Salt Lake City went into effect on Friday. Gay rights advocates and city officials joined Mayor Ralph Becker at City Hall to celebrate the ordinances’ implementation.

“These ordinances demonstrate our determination to foster an environment of good will and acceptance welcoming every member of the community as an integral part of our Great American City,” Becker said in a statement. “Everyone in Salt Lake City will benefit from the protections these ordinances provide.”

Becker, a Democrat, introduced in October the two ordinances that make it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity (transgender protections) in the areas of employment and housing. At the time, passage appeared iffy as socially conservative state lawmakers and Governor Gary Herbert, a Republican, denounced the measures.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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