Petition drive to repeal LGBT ordinance falls short
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Juan Perez Jr. and Erin Golden
The fate of Omaha's legal protections for gay and transgender residents won't be placed into voters' hands this spring.
A church-led effort to repeal the ordinance did not gather enough signatures in time to launch a referendum immediately, organizers said Thursday.
The Omaha Liberty Project, sponsor of the petition effort, needed to submit roughly 11,400 valid resident signatures to the city today to potentially force a vote in May's general election.
The group's volunteer petition circulators led months of signature gathering and community-organizing efforts, its leader said, but didn't collect enough signatures to account for potentially ineligible entries. The group has already missed a deadline to place the issue on the primary ballot.
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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130201/NEWS/702019912/1685#petition-drive-to-repeal-lgbt-ordinance-falls-short
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I know that is often the case with these things, but that quote is bothering me this morning more than usual.
Someone, please slap me if I am out of bounds on this one, I have not had my coffee yet:
WHY IN THE WORLD IS THIS NOT JUSTIFICATION TO REMOVE THEIR TAX-EXEMPT STATUS??????? 
