Neb. Governor Urges Public Vote on Gay Bias Laws

[OmahaBlueDog]

Source: KETV Omaha

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska's governor says city ordinances barring discrimination against gay and transgender people should be put to public votes.

Gov. Dave Heineman on Tuesday cited a recent opinion from the state attorney general's office that said cities would have to amend their charters to offer protections to groups not covered by state law.





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Heck, let's put everyone's civil rights up for a vote.

[Politicub]

1. When will these straight supremacists stop?

It's unamerican to put civil rights on a ballot. Madness.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, we never did vote for the civil rights acts in the 60's. I can just

imagine how well they would have done. Maybe he would also like to take civil rights from women, just make them outright slaves. These guys are such absolute jerks.

[LibDemAlways]

3. In retrospect it's amazing that the George Wallaces and Strom Thurmonds didn't

campaign to have civil rights be put up for a vote. Today's rightwingers are no less bigoted just more diabolical.

[RKP5637]

5. Yes, very good point!!! You know, at one time I thought all of that was

going away with the end of them and those of that ilk. It's been decades since the passage of the civil rights laws and here we are again with the same type of bigots and haters, venting their hatred and bigotry toward women, blacks, LGBT and anyone else that doesn't fit their simplistically stupid view of the world.

[msongs]

4. can we vote on bills to outlaw christians? they love voting on rights so much nt

[RKP5637]

6. Or at minimal, take away the tax advantage for churches, especially the

mega-churches that have more money than some countries, I believe.

[RKP5637]

7. This (and things like it) well might contribute to more 'brain drain' from

the Midwest. These people think they're only affecting LGBT, but many people are fed up with these tactics/thoughts/notions. We're getting out of here and I know others fed up with this nonsense.

In Virgina, I'm not sure how this stands now, but some people were leaving Virginia because of their inane laws some years back. Here's a link on that ...

Published on February 22, 2007

VOTERS AND LEGISLATORS in Virginia have been increasingly busy in recent times, seemingly vying for the title of most homophobic state in the union.

Unfriendly laws cause some gay residents to leave Virginia.

''The main reason we moved out of Virginia was that law that went through about leaving your assets to someone of the same sex,'' says Hoban, pointing to the so-called Virginia Affirmation Act, which became law in 2004.

http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=2561