MD Pro-Family Activists Hope To Defeat Law Protecting Homosexual “Gender Identity”
The following are excerpts from an August 4, 2008 article appearing on Examiner.com.
“Montgomery Co. referendum seen as guide to nixing transgender laws in U.S.”
Examiner.com – August 4, 2008WASHINGTON – Religious conservatives are hoping a referendum on a Montgomery County law protecting transgender people could become a template to repeal similar measures across the country.
Montgomery County Council members unanimously approved a measure last fall that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, public accommodations, and taxicab and cable service. Council members included an exemption for “personal and private” places, but nonetheless drew the ire of local conservatives, who said they feared men would be allowed in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.
A local group, Citizens for Responsible Government, ran a successful petition drive to get the 25,000 signatures required to put the law on the county’s November ballot for possible recall.
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“There’s no strategy, there’s just similar concerns among people in Montgomery County, Maryland, Colorado and Gainesville, Florida, where they’re also facing a referendum on a similar law,” [Focus on the Family judicial analyst Bruce] Hausknecht said. “This is precisely what the transgender community ultimately wants: to open up bathrooms, locker rooms across the country.”
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Read the entire news article here:
http://www.examiner.com/a-1519743~MontCo_r…MORE INFORMATION:
Read the text of the law pro-family advocates are seeking to have repealed:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/council/pdf/bill/2007/23-07.pdfRead about the impact this law can have on pro-family citizens in Maryland:
http://www.notmyshower.net/zimpactandfines.pdf