Oklahoma senate passes anti lgbtq bill

At the same time the Oklahoma Senate is passing three anti-LGBTQ+ bills, the Oklahoma House voted 81-19 to censure Rep Mauree Turner and remove them from committee assignments. Rep Turner is the first and only publicly nonbinary state lawmaker in Oklahoma history.

There are currently two sitting members of the Oklahoma House in positions of leadership with active felony charges against them, neither of which faced censorship or had committee assignments revoked.

All three bills now head to the Oklahoma House for consideration.

Human Rights State Legislative Director and Senior Counsel Cathryn Oakley issued the following statement today:

“Today, drastic politicians in Oklahoma abused their power to decline LGBTQ+ people the ability to live as matching citizens of the mention. Instead of trying to better the lives of Oklahomans, they are functional overtime to exclude gender nonconforming people from public being and limit what their constituents have the right to read. These extremist legislators are sending a dangerous message, and are actively contributing to

Oklahoma Senate Passes Controversial Adoption Bill, Outraging LGBTQ Groups

The Oklahoma Senate has passed a regulation that would make it legal for adoption companies to refuse services to same-sex couples.

As The Tulsa World reports, the measure passed by a vote of 35-9 and now heads to the Residence for consideration. LGBTQ activism groups decried the Senate vote.

Marty Rouse, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign said, “Bills such as SB 1140 are a clear attempt to solve a ‘problem’ that simply doesn’t exist while enshrining anti-LGBTQ discrimination into law.”

Meanwhile the bill’s composer, Senate Majority Floor Commander Greg Treat, disagreed with the idea that the bill sanctions discrimination against gay couples. Brett Farley, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, defended the measure, saying, “All the bill does is simply codifies the right of faith-based adoption agencies to continue to operate according to their religious principles.”

Источник: https://www.hppr.org/hppr-government-politics/2018-03-14/oklahoma-senate-passes-controversial-adoption-bill-outraging-lgbtq-groups

Oklahoma Senate Passes Anti-LGBTQ Bill; HRC Calls on Property to Reject It

SB 1140 passes Senate by vote of 35-9, goes to Oklahoma Residence next

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, called out the Oklahoma Senate for passing SB 1140, a bill that would permit child welfare organizations -- including adoption and foster look after agencies -- to turn away qualified Oklahomans seeking to care for a child in require, including LGBTQ couples, interfaith couples, available parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced, or other parents to whom the agency has a religious objection. A similar bill recently passed the Georgia Senate and is awaiting a hearing in the Georgia House Judiciary Committee.

“Bills such as SB 1140 are a clear attempt to solve a ‘problem’ that simply doesn’t exist while enshrining anti-LGBTQ discrimination into law,” said Marty Rouse, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign. “If lawmakers in Oklahoma truly wanted to help detect permanent homes for the children in the child welfare system, they wouldn

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By Rob Howard
Associate Editor

The Oklahoma Mention Senate this morning considered Senate Bill 694, a bill proposed by anti-LGBTQ Sen. Josh Brecheen.

The bill would possess prevented local governments – cities, towns, counties and other subdivisions – from passing anti-discrimination ordinances that go beyond the prohibitions contained in state commandment. Current Oklahoma declare law identifies as protected classes for the purposes of anti-discrimination law the following: Race, Paint, National origin, Religious, Sex, Disability, Age (40 and older), Genetic information, Military service, and existence a smoker or nonsmoker.

It does not protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Several Oklahoma cities and counties, including Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Norman and Oklahoma County, possess passed ordinances protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender self. The ordinances variously protect against this for all citizens or for employment decisions of the government entities.

Passage of SB 694 would have made those ordinances null and void, and would have prevented any further local governments from passing such protections.

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