Posted on 05/23/2018 8:17:38 PM PDT by Phillyred
HATBORO >> The borough has joined a small but steadily growing list of municipalities across Pennsylvania that has done what the state government, so far, has been unable to do — extend discrimination protections to members of the LGBTQ community.
In a 4-3 vote Monday night, borough council approved an ordinance making it unlawful in Hatboro to discriminate against a person in matters of employment, housing, commercial property acquisition and public accommodations on the basis of that person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
The state’s Human Relations Act, however, does not extend protections to include actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Hatboro’s ordinance does.
Efforts have been made on the state level in recent years to amend the Human Relations Act to offer comparable protections to members of the LGBTQ community, but those efforts have stalled. More than 40 municipalities across Pennsylvania have, in response, taken it upon themselves to approve their own protections for their LGBTQ citizens.
Hatboro’s ordinance was not met with unanimous support from members of the council. Voting against the ordinance were council members George Forgeng, David Rich and Robert Hegele. Supporters were board President George Bollendorf, Vice President Dave Stockton, Elle Anzinger and Nicole Benjamin.
Word of the council’s consideration of the ordinance drew a large public turnout Monday night, with some residents questioning the need to offer what they regarded as special treatment for the LGBTQ community. Others said they saw the ordinance as an affront to traditional family values and Christian teachings.
“I don’t see this as a human rights issue; I see this as a protection of a behavioral choices issue,” said resident Frank Hierholzer, who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting just prior to board’s vote on the ordinance.....
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They don’t want equality, they have protected class status. They wish to rule over us.
Soon to be discriminatory to rebuke sexual advances in a washroom from a member of the same sex.
“It’s a COMPLIMENT! Go with it!”
The only movie that ever got them right was Silence of the Lambs. And I hate Jodie Foster.
“This used to be a very conservative area.”
In the 1950s maybe! Since the 1970s it’s been a more liberal area than many others nearby. It’s Montgomery County after all!
Wouldn’t it be great if Conservatives went on the offensive instead of always playing defense?
I lived in Montgomery Co, in the 50’s-70’s. It was very conservative in the 50’s but by the 70’s things were changing. Went back about a year ago, the beautiful farms are gone,as well as the wonderful people. I miss the old days.
“I lived in Montgomery Co, in the 50’s-70’s. It was very conservative in the 50’s but by the 70’s things were changing. Went back about a year ago, the beautiful farms are gone,as well as the wonderful people. I miss the old days.”
Yeah, Montgomery and Bucks counties both are becoming nothing but unending suburban sprawl. You can still find a few places in Chester County that have the look that much of Montgomery and Bucks used to have. Ludwigs Corner, in West Vincent Township, four miles north of Eagle, still has some neat mixture of a 200 year old inn turned into a restaurant, with modern businesses near by and then some a few (remaining for now!) fields. That won’t last. https://tinyurl.com/y9edue3g
4 to 3, sounds to a Leftist like unanimous.
Whenever a group wants to impose a new value or protected status it follows the four -ates: first, tolerate; second, educate; third, accommodate; and fourth, celebrate. Gay rights, women’s rights and homeless rights are on steps three and four. Radical Islam, transexuals, felons and druggies are on steps two and three; pedophiles and Sharia Law advocates are on steps one and two. And so on ad infinitum.
protected class status gives them power over us, period
Recognizing our vulnerability, the “gays” began devoting themselves fully to pushing “anti-discrimination” policies defining “sexual orientation” as a basis for civil rights minority status. These Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) enshrine into law the logical premise that disapproval of homosexuality is morally wrong and must be publicly discouraged. They turn reality on its head and lead ultimately to the criminalization of Biblical Christianity. Moreover, wherever they have been enacted anywhere in the world, these SORs have proven to be the seed that contains the entire tree of the homosexual political agenda, with all of its poisonous fruit: “gay” marriage, “gay” adoption, indoctrination of public school children with “gay” propaganda, public funding of “gay” institutions, etcetera. Once the seed is planted, the entire agenda comes forth in steady incremental stages while dissent is increasingly punished.
http://www.scottlively.net/2015/12/31/a-letter-to-the-international-pro-family-movement/
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