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Should the proposal to include sexual orientation in the city of Holland's anti-discrimination ordinances be put on the ballot for a vote of the people? (Poll Closed)

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7 Comments

  • ned - 13 years ago

    why are we wasting are time on this crap?

  • Donald Steele - 13 years ago

    Holland does know it's the 21st Century doesn't it? It's all right to take tax dollars from people like "that". "Those people" are than equal then. Just not equal the rest of the time. Sad and pathetic.

  • Citizen - 13 years ago

    Equal rights will not force acceptance or create an accepting community. We're talking a person's personal acceptance there which is not under law.

  • Citizen Al - 13 years ago

    No. There is no reason to give extra rights and protections to homosexuals beyond what the law already provides to all citizens.

    In California, A bi-sexual group has filed suit against a "gay" baseball league because the ;league excluded the bisexual men claiming "they aren't gay enough".
    The "rights" issue is a smokescreen for a much larger agenda.

    The story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393753/Bisexual-men-sue-gay-softball-event-disqualifying-gay-enough.html

  • Joshua Zuiderveen - 13 years ago

    It is time the real conscience of the country stood up to this type of thinly-veiled bigotry. It is clear as can possibly be that the religiously-influenced "morality" of the lakeshore area is not a humane, compassionate morality at all. It is one that excludes and condemns other innocent human beings for reasons whose origins come from times when we thought the earth was flat. I'm a married heterosexual who has lived in West Michigan for 37 years, and I'm disgusted to know that my children will have to navigate life amongst the kind of people who would publicly vote to not extend basic human rights to their neighbors based on outdated, awful religious prejudices. That's what the Taliban does -- and life where they vote in the majority is awful.

    This is America, and it's better than living under the Taliban because we have secular laws that demand higher human and moral standards than silly, bronze-age mythology! The minister who spoke out against the proposition to extend anti-discrimination protection to the entire community ought to be run out of town, if not tarred and feathered first. Why do so many humans listen to mean-spirited people like him? People like him are encouraging us to be mean to other innocent human beings, for absolutely no sound reason. Shame, shame on the entire region for letting the ugly sentiment of exclusion take over.

  • Emily - 13 years ago

    Nine people can not truely represent the ideas, passion, and reality that this change will create.

  • ZK - 13 years ago

    Homophobia is sexism.
    Why is it no surprise then that women are more accepting of gay rights than their male peers? Because a system is set up where the systematic beatings, abuse and lack of rights robs this person of their rights. This law would protect straights equally; it would protect those attacked for being gay, even if they were or not. It is not special protection. This law would make Holland a safer place for all.

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