City council votes to rescind LGBTQ protections passed in February

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The Lincoln, Nebraska City Council has voted against keeping an anti-discrimination ordinance in place that would have maintained protections for LGBTQ members of the city. It has only been four months since it was initially approved, but the most surprising aspect is that two out LGBTQ council members were a part of the voting block that rescinded the ordinance.

Known as the fairness ordinance, the council voted 4-3 to end the revision passed in February that offered equal opportunity to LGBTQ people when it comes to housing, employment opportunities, and public accommodations. According to the Lincoln Journal-Star, the ordinance was under attack by an anti-LGBTQ conservative group that successfully petitioned the council to vote against keeping it in place.

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If the vote had not been taken, a measure to revoke the ordinance would have been put on the November ballot as a measure.

The ordinance has been under attack since it was put in place back in February. The conservative group Nebraska Family Alliance falsely described the ordinance as…

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