Quote:So your answer is a new law to supersede a law that is currently being ignored? How about enforcing the current laws on the books?  Why does that not work for you?

 

The law is not on the books here.  The HRO is an expansion of the existing protections to include the 36,000 LGBT citizens who have no protections.

 

My friend who has been evicted and fired lives in a state that does have those protections and is going broke fighting it legally.  So even with the protections, they may have insult to injury for standing up for themselves if they lose. Here, there is no possible recourse if a person gets fired or evicted for being LGBT. And I know people who have been fired here as well who were top 3% performers simply for being gay.

 

You wanna hear the argument against, come to City Hall Tuesday night. The crazies will be there. It's ludicrous the arguments that are made. Locally, the "morality police" has not one, but two people fighting against an expansion who molested kids (Roy Bay & Ken Adkins). We are the largest city in America that does not have these basic protections for LGBT citizens.  The locals fighting this think adding this is going to turn Jax into San Francisco.  It's beyond dumb.

 

Khan has spoken on how it hurts the city (along with 650 business leaders a couple hundred faith leaders and the Chamber of Commerce). HB2 in NC cost them the NBA All Star Game as well as several concerts and the ACC Championship.  We have the best stadium in America and couldn't even put our name in the hat to get that game as we lack the same protections that caused the NCAA to move that game. 

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