With a quick meeting, no questions or comments, and a 6-1 vote the House Ways & Means Committee has voted to introduce the “Add the Words” bill, to add the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the Idaho Human Rights Act and ban discrimination on those bases in housing, employment and public accommodations. “This is really a very simple bill,” said House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston. “It enhances Idaho’s freedom, it protects against discrimination in education, employment and public accommodation. It simply states that sexual orientation or gender identity cannot be used to deny rights and opportunity available to Idahoans”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

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