Quote:Show me one law on the Jacksonville charter that allows discrimination.

Today in Jax if a person is kicked out of a restaurant, fired, evicted or denied public accommodation because of their sexual identity, they have no grounds for recourse. I know a southern, white Christian male who is former military and was recruited to relocate to Jax for a sales role. He took the lowest performing region in the country and made it a top 3 market and was still fired simply for being gay. He had no grounds to fight that discrimination.


It's not in the charter, but it's in the fiber of this city. Cross burnings were a regular occurrence at Vilano Beach just a few decades ago. When marriage equality passed nationally, our clerk of courts unilaterally decided to halt ALL marriage ceremonies in a government building (NOT a house of worship). It costs our city roughly $50K a year at a time where our debt has caused our credit rating to drop.

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