MCCALL, Idaho — Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to put a stop to local communities’ efforts to provide discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.
The approval of the non-binding resolution came Saturday at the GOP’s annual Central Committee summer meeting in McCall.
The GOP-dominated Idaho Legislature has refused to add housing and workplace protections for gays and lesbians to the Idaho Human Rights Act.
As a consequence, numerous municipalities including Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, Ketchum, Moscow and Boise are passing their own local protections.
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That didn’t sit well with the majority of Republicans in McCall, who say that Idaho lawmakers should put a stop to it.
According to the resolution, the Legislature should pass a law making local discrimination protections unenforceable if they go beyond the state’s protections.
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