Tag: LGBT Discrimination: Exploring Laws and Policies
The Backlash to the PennDOT action has begun!
They need to generate fear in the reader, and create a false sense of being a victim. The truth is that a YMCA or similar facility is not under any requirement to do anything based upon a driver's license. But
We Aren’t Still Living in the Dark Ages, Are We?
That's right. If Lancaster County is successful, women, minorities, and the religious, will be just like gays and lesbians who can be fired, refused entry, or denied housing.
Lower Merion Township May Be First To Adopt Non-Discrimination Ordinance
The primary thing that stops movement on protections like this is a lack of knowledge, or ignorance. By giving voice to the realities of the benefits of non-discrimination to the community at large, fair-minded people overwhelmingly support non-discrimination.
Why Pennsylvania Needs to Care About Non-Discrimination
Does Pennsylvania want to be attracting large corporations like Northrup Grumman? Seems like a silly question, yet the reality is that companies make choices based on a number of factors, bit at least a part of it, is selecting states
Lancaster City Human Relations Commission Sponsors Community Discussion About PA HB 300
On Monday, March 8, 2010 The Lancaster City Human Relations Commission is sponsoring a community discussion about Pennsylvania HB300
This Could Happen To You: Losing Your Job Because You Are Gay
Today in the State of Pennsylvania, there are a handful of cities and counties that offer nondiscrimination protections, but within the rest of the state, there is no protection whatsoever. The solution? Pass PA HB 300.
Gubernatorial Candidate Speaks Up for Equality and Fairness
Got this from the blog called Above Average Jane: Joe Hoeffel called on Attorney General (and GOP candidate) Tom Corbett to support “HB 300 and HB 745 today so that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens of Pennsylvania can have
Thoughts About the PA Equality Summit
Now that I’ve been back in Pittsburgh for a day, I’m mostly recuperated from yesterday’s trip to State College for the PA Equality Summit. Sponsored by the ACLU of PA and Equality Advocates PA, the gathering was designed to join
Man in hospital after vicious brick attack
The people who need to look most closely at this picture and story are those who are opposed to equal protections for gays and lesbians on religious grounds. Those who claim that if gays have rights it will interfere with
