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10.06.2009 4:26pm EDT
(Salt Lake City) Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is meeting with gay rights advocacy groups for the first time since saying he opposes providing legal protections for gay and transgender people.
Herbert took office in mid-August after Jon Huntsman resigned to become U.S. ambassador to China.Within weeks of his inauguration, Herbert said he doesn’t think it should be illegal to discriminate against someone for being gay or transgender.
In Utah, it’s currently legal to fire someone or evict them from housing for being gay. Herbert contends that discriminating against gay people is wrong – but says there’s no need for a law to prevent it.
Gay rights advocacy group Equality Utah plans to tell Herbert Tuesday why it thinks current laws are inadequate.
Herbert seems terribly naive, if not stubborn. I still miss Huntsman.
If people can be evicted from where they live for being “GAY”. Why can’t they also be evicted for being straight also? What legal leg would they be able to stand on if this happened? I would love to see this go to court. Any ideas on an outcome of such a case?
And I see no reason for being barred from discriminating against Mormons. If they were half as benign as they try to paint themselves, then how come good country folk ran them out of New York, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri? Was that a bigoted thing to say? Maybe so, but if I can’t act on that, then I wanna know what ignorance-passing-for-logic the good governor is presenting as justification for acknowledging a wrong and then refusing to block it.
I “love” the governor’s convoluted logic: it’s wrong to discriminate but it should be legal to discriminate.
ALAN: It’s not illegal in Utah to evict people from housing for being straight. But it would be suicidal for a business to adopt such a policy since straight people are 90% of the population.