Ordinance ordained (Coeur d'Alene, ID becomes California)

Coeur d'Alene Press ^ | 6/6/13 | Tom Hasslinger

[illiac]

COEUR d'ALENE - The next step is taking a breath.

A day after the Coeur d'Alene City Council adopted an anti-discrimination ordinance 5 to 1, Tony Stewart said the next move is, well, stopping and taking it easy.

"We've been getting a lot of calls and emails," said Stewart, Human Rights Task Force on Human Relations member, on Wednesday on the positive feedback he had received from the previous night's vote. "These things wind up being a great celebration."

And a lot of work.

Stewart, who brought the ordinance to the city to consider, said months of studying went into bringing it to Coeur d'Alene. It's not something that's jumped into.

Coeur d'Alene became the fifth Idaho city to adopt an ordinance that protects lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people from discrimination in areas of employment, housing and public accommodation.

But just because Coeur d'Alene did, the task force isn't ready to make a pitch to neighboring cities to do the same.

"It's a tremendous amount of work," Stewart said on bringing the ordinance forward. "You have to focus on one place at a time."

[illiac]

And so it begins....Idaho becomes California....

Some interesting comments after the article.

[Resolute Conservative]

Colorado and Montana have a good lead so they will have to work hard to catch them.

[Dudoight]

I thought Coeur d’ Alene was fairly conservative. I think its reasonable not to discriminate.

[illiac]

Unfortunately, the message is hidden in the city council’s agenda....this becomes much more than discrimination once you look under the hood.....

[brownsfan]

Liberals are a virus. They kill the host, (California), then move on and kill another, (Idaho, Montana, Colorado).

I hate liberals.

[RikaStrom]

Oh good grief!!!

[indthkr]

"I think its reasonable not to discriminate."

No question about that. But is it really necessary to create another ordinance or law on top of what is already spelled out in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Federal Law?

Sounds to me like another excuse to create a government watch dog group, committee, or just feed the lawyers.

[imardmd1]

The Playboy Philosophy of the 1950s come home to roost in the heart of “America.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

“We’ve extended full anti-discrimination protection to black people in Coeur d’Alene.

That’s right.....both of them!”

[SeaDragon]

Lovely. Just freaking lovely.

I can't say I am shocked. CDA started turning into CA a long time ago.

So sad.

[Disambiguator]

What’s happening here is solving a problem that doesn’t exist in order to promote the homosexual agenda. Boise did the same thing recently.

[John O]

I think its reasonable not to discriminate.

On a personal level it is very reasonable to not discriminate (for immutable characteristics such as race etc). For one thing it's bad business to eliminate a section of teh market for no good reason.

However, it is abomination for ANYONE to force anyone else to not discriminate (for any reason).

What right do you (or anyone else) have to force me to associate with someone I do not want to associate with? The Constitution guarantees my right of freedom of association. This includes the right to not associate at all. Now social busy bodies are forcing me to associate with people I don't like.

If I own a property and I do not want to rent it to some faggot, or to a one legged mexican flower arranger, or to a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or to a Jewish-American princess, or to a black or etc etc etc then I should not have to be forced to rent it to them.

Anti-discrimnination laws are unconstitutional.

[Elsie]

I think its reasonable not to discriminate.

My neighbor, who was in jail 5 years for child molesting; is moving next door to you.

[illiac]

So right.

The council”man” who proposed this had worked with the Coeur d’Alene Theatre who put on plays for the locals. Says he is familiar with the LGBT plight and wants to assure their rights are not violated.

Guess the local electorate is changing and CDA will fall into the abyss...

[Elsie]

Brokeback Mountain...

[Elsie]

That’s right.....both of them!”

  Barbara Walters called the city "a little slice of Heaven" and included it in her list of most fascinating places to visit.

 

Wiki says: 18 folks are Black there   (44137 * 0.4%)

[Iron Munro]

Queers everywhere are holdng slapping parties to show their support.

[Myrddin]

I moved to the Pocatello area in 2000. At that time, they had a Christmas parade. There was rumor that a group of gays intended to inject a bit of their brand of hedonism into the parade. They did. The locals responded with a garden hose. The ambient temperature was around +20F at the time of the parade. Wet clothes aren't a good thing at that temperature.

[Billthedrill]

Resort towns are full of liberal social reformers, and CDA is no exception. Sun Valley has been down that road for decades.

[Bernard Marx]

Things have come a long way from the "Boys of Boise" days in the 1950s. This Wiki piece -- which seems to me to have been modified by someone with homosexual sympathies -- gives the broad outlines of the scandal that rocked the state. Now the people who brought the charges would probably be sent to prison instead.

BOYS OF BOISE