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Iowa Senate passes LGBT anti-discrimination bill

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 06:00:00 AM EDT

"Today, we have the opportunity to reaffirm that in Iowa, job performance is what counts, not what you look like, not what church you attend, not how old you are or who you love...It is difficult to convince a talented young person to come to Iowa or stay in Iowa when they can be discriminated against simply because of who they are,"
-- Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, who led debate on the bill.

A bill that would extend civil rights protections to LGBT citizens in Iowa passed the state Senate on Monday. Both sexual orientation and gender identity would be added to the Iowa Civil Rights Act. (Advocate News/Gay.com):

The chamber passed Senate File 427 on a bipartisan 32-17 vote. It moves now to the state House of Representatives, where Iowa Equality board president Sandy Vopalka expects it to have a tougher time.
Among the civil rights bill's opponents of record were the Iowa Association of Business and Industry and the Meredith Corp., the Des Moines-based owner of 12 TV stations and publisher of 26 subscription magazines including Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal and Better Homes and Gardens.
Meredith lobbyist Jim Carney told Gay.com on Tuesday that that stance was "a mistake" arising from miscommunication, and that Meredith, going forward, will take a "monitoring or neutral" stance on the bill.

Please. What kind of miscommunication was that?

Passage in this body sends the bill to the House, where it isn't clear that it will have the votes.

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"What kind of miscommunication was that?"

They mistakenly made public their desire to maintain the special right to exclude GLBT people from employment.

Iowa has at least one Sinclair-owned station. I wonder what Sinclair's stance was.

Kat

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by: KatRose @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 06:31:21 AM CDT

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miscommunication

Maybe someone forgot to tell them to expect a boycott of their magazines?

by: one jewish dyke @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 10:46:28 AM CDT

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iowa really is losing its young workforce

several of my architecture graduating class members from iowa (nearly all of whom have left the state) received letters from the iowa governor within a year of their departure, asking them to re-consider the benefits the state of iowa has to offer. iowa is not a bad place to live if you have a family, but it's not for young urbanites. the passage of a bill like this seems like a no-brainer if the state wants to make steps in that direction. the house would be fools to let this die when they need it to buff the state's image and be competetive.

their reasons don't really seem to be about fairness for LGBT individuals, but more about retaining / attracting young people to the state because of its progressiveness. whatever--i'll take business sensibility reasons over nothing any day.

The gays stole my lunch money

by: matt in mpls @ Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 09:50:53 AM CDT

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