Add The Words Hearing Resumes
- Monday: Add the Words hearing attracts 500/Betsy Russell, SR
The House State Affairs Committee has resumed taking public testimony on HB 2, the bill to add the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the Idaho Human Rights Act, to ban discrimination in housing, employment or public accommodations on those bases. Among those testifying: Cindy Gross, chair of the Add the Words campaign, told the committee, “I stand here because if I don’t, I won’t be able to look at myself in the mirror in the morning”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.
Also today:
- Not a choice
- An ugly situation
- Talking definitions
- I've been fired for being gay
- Ramifications upon my church
- Exactly why this bill is needed
- Telling people that they don't matter
- Why committee is sitting in back row
- Bathrooms, wearing a dress, taking it off
Thoughts?
