From: DavidN1327@aol.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:10:52 -0400
Subject: GLUD blasts plan to weaken Salt Lake County nondiscrimination

NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release

Monday, July 17, 1995

Contact: Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats
 Post Office Box 11311
 Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0311
 (801)238-2526
 (800)648-9996 outside the Salt Lake City calling area
 Internet: glud@aol.com

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GLUD blasts plan to weaken Salt Lake County nondiscrimination laws

SALT LAKE CITY - Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats leaders blasted today a plan
to weaken two Salt Lake County ordinances which protect against
discrimination based on sexual orientation, among other things, in
county-government employment and services.

The bill is planned to be considered by the county Board of Commissioners at
10:00 a.m. on Wednesday in room N1100 at the county Government Center at 2001
South State Street in Salt Lake City. If passed, the bill would remove the
protected categories of age, marital status, color, national origin, sex,
sexual orientation, race and religion, and protect only those categories
already protected by state and federal nondiscrimination laws. The bill would
effectively repeal protections for marital status and sexual orientation
which aren't included in state and federal laws.

"There have been no complaints about these laws in the three years since they
were adopted except from radical-right groups," GLUD Founder David Nelson
said. "These laws have served us well. Why are these laws being changed now
if no one but the Utah Eagle Forum has objected to them?"

Nelson wrote the ordinances in 1992 and is a county employee. He believes
that the bill's proponents are embracing the radical-right agenda and might
try disguising the bill's passage as fiscal responsibility.

"When you refuse employment and services to certain citizens, you're bound to
save some tax dollars," Nelson said. "But it's unfair discrimination
nonetheless."