Seeking to avoid some of the controversy they experienced last year, council members last night decided 3-2 to change their city laws to ban all future proclamations about Gay Pride Day, saying doing so promoted a particular sexual orientation and was discriminatory.
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``This policy makes a strong statement to the youth of your community,'' Santa Clara City Councilwoman Jamie McLeod said to the council. ``I appreciate you have conservative constituents; you may have conservative views yourself. I'm not asking you to give those up, but I am asking you not to set policy that is incredibly destructive to your community.''
Under the eye of two television news cameras, Councilman Casas skirted the language in the change, saying it wasn't only meant to exclude Gay Pride Day, although he did not cite another instance where he had voted against an official proclamation because he felt it was controversial or discriminatory.
Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13879043.htm
I am posting this simply because I am so proud of my woman. She did attend this meeting and did speak both during the meeting and after it to a news team. Yes she made it onto both KTVU, Channel 2 , Fox affiliate in Oakland and NBC11 (aka KTTV), NBC affil. in San Jose with some incredible sound bites. I won't say which person she was, because it isn't up to me. And Sapphocrat did this with under 24 hours notice that this was going down. So all those who say queers don't do anything for themselves think again, because not one person showed up in support of the heterosexual community, but 24 showed up in support of the LGBTIQQ community of this little town.
By the way the council may see themselves in some hot water on this because the way the final amendment is worded, it specifically singles out LGBTs in its "intent." Which probably violates California's anti-discrimination laws.