Hutchinson Voters Might Face Dueling Ordinances
Associated Press - Tue 08:58 AM 08/14/2012
327 valid signatures are needed to get the question on the ballot
Hutchinson voters in November might face ballot issues that would either repeal gay rights or broaden them.
In June, the Hutchinson City Council added protections against discrimination in housing and employment for gay, lesbian and bisexual people. After the vote, opponents began gathering signatures on petitions to require a November vote to repeal that ordinance.
On Tuesday, the Kansas Equality Coalition announced it would gather signatures on a ballot question asking voters to approve wider protections for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The KEC, which has about 170 Hutchinson members, will need 327 valid signatures to get the question on the ballot.
Opponents led by the Kansas Family Policy Council say they already have more than 327 signatures needed to get their question on the ballot.
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Associated Press Information from: The Hutchinson News
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GETALIFE674
Tuesday 14 August 2012 10:31 Report this comment
Best thing that can be done anywhere these people pop up demanding things is put a bounty on there heads and run them out of town.
THEENFORCER
Tuesday 14 August 2012 11:41 Report this comment
I agree time to rid society of these misfits and by doing so we also take care of alot of child abusers at the same time.
Indy452
Tuesday 14 August 2012 11:51 Report this comment
I wonder if you are aware that the outspoken homophobes are the ones that have the most repressed homosexual tendencies themselves. Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, George Rekers...need I go on ???............. http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2012/04/study_finds_homophobes_often_have_repressed_homosexual_tendencies
Iamgonnagetu
Tuesday 14 August 2012 14:17 Report this comment
I was wondering when the homophobes card was going to be played. It is the only defense these freaks of society can come up with. All of us straight people are fed up with your BS comments trying to make something out of nothing. In the last 15 years people just ignorned the gay community and life went on which was good for everyone. Now the freaks of our society want to push themselves on everyone and it is not going to happen.
salinax
Tuesday 14 August 2012 15:54 Report this comment
I AGREE! If this keeps up before you know it the blacks are going to want to use the same drinking fountain and sit in the front of the bus! Mark my word, someday they will even want to marry our precious white children!
Iamgonnagetu
Tuesday 14 August 2012 17:48 Report this comment
Salinax evidently you have just come out of your closet. While the things you say happened 70 years ago the point you are trying to make is mute. Being gay is not being black. Blacks were never freaks on mankind. Gays are freaks of mankind and our society. This is not just in Kansas but the whole world. I suggest you leave Kansas and move to Iraqi. See what happens to you over there.
BobBowser
Tuesday 14 August 2012 19:17 Report this comment
The sad ting is how comunities and even church congregations are being divided over an argument about a non-existent problem. Atleast Hutchinson Commissioners had the good sense to take out the part where the City would tell Churches how they could use their property or allow it to be used. We might not be having the same fight in Salina were it not for government's encroachment on religious freedom. Everywhere this has been brought to a public vote, it has been voted down. Will cities across the MidWest including several in Kansas become the "freaks" or will we stand up to this "divide and conquer" nonsense. The Equality Coalition confesses it is after as many cities as it can get so they can attack the State legislatures with the same nonsense. Our local and State governments have bigger fish to fry.
troy
Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:24 Report this comment
It's very simply. Take 100 people, 3 of them are of the special interest type. They threaten the other 97 with law suits if they don't get their way. So the city council disregards the wishes of the 97 and makes an ordnance in favor of the 3. It's time for the 97 to have a say and I think the 3 aren't going to like it. Too bad! This is how the system is supposed to work. I frankly don't care what the 3 think, want, wish for, or demand.....I just don't care. Somewhere along the way this got really stupid. If I have a rental property and do not wish to rent it to someone (for whatever reason) I should not have to worry about turning them down. But now, I'll be taken to court and raked over the coals because, as it turns out, the prospective renter is gay. Know what, it's my rental and I'll rent it to whomever I wish to.
evilklown
Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:56 Report this comment
I used to not care if anyone was a homo, but with all of their forcing their lifestyle upon us I'm really starting to dislike them. It is one thing to want acceptance but forcing acceptance is way out of line. If I don't want to rent to a homo, so be it, prove that I'm discriminating.
RedNeckWatch
Wednesday 5 September 2012 17:21 Report this comment
Troy, you have the stats wrong and the law wrong. You do not get to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it and nobody ever has had that right in this country. We are a nation of laws, and it is illegal to discriminate against men and women for various reasons. The LGBT community is not seeking special rights, but equal rights to work, find housing, etc. . . . . evilklown, proof is not a problem. The initial burden of a plaintiff in a discrimination case is minimal. All they have to do is prove that they are a member of a group protected by the law and the burden then shifts to you to prove that you had a legitimate reason for your actions. If you cannot do that, then you lose. If you offer a plausibele reason, then plaintiff can offer proof that you are just making up a reason to escape liability. The jury then gets to decide if you are telling the truth or not. Don't risk your life savings through ignorance of the law.
RedNeckWatch
Wednesday 5 September 2012 17:24 Report this comment
Well spoken salinax.
RedNeckWatch
Wednesday 5 September 2012 17:26 Report this comment
Hey enforcer. Have you been thinking about your homework? Here it is again:Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates." Oh, and would please post you name, address, and telephone number? Hahahahahahahha I bet you won't tough girl.