University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 4, 1988
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Group still seeking change in ordinance
By Christine Martin
Kansas staff writer
A Lawrence group is working toward bringing a proposal to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals before the Lawrence City Commission again.
In January, the commission voted 3-2 to take no action on amending Lawrence's human rights ordinance to prohibit homosexual discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation.
Liz Gowdy, spokesman for the Citizens for Human Rights in Lawrence, said yesterday that she hoped the ordinance could go before the commission by the end of the year.
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“It’s important the City Commission knows that people are working toward this and that the local community in general is aware they made no decision,” Gowdy said. “And the message has been that it’s OK to harass people.”
Lawrence's current human rights ordinance, passed in 1983, prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, nationality, religion, age, ancestry or handicap.
Gowdy said that the Citizens for Human Rights in Lawrence was
working with other groups, such as the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas and the Kansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, to organize rallies and raise funds to change the ordinance.
Gowdy said that her group was putting a reporting system together that would keep track of alleged cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
City Commissioner Bob Schumm, who voted against amending the ordinance, said that further study should be conducted on the issue before it was brought before the commissioners again.
Schumm said that the City Commission had done its job in discussing the amendment and that if residents wanted to propose the amendment again, Lawrence residents should vote on it.
City Commissioner Sandra Praeger, who also voted against amending the ordinance, said that the commission would be open to review the ordinance again if additional facts were presented.
"I don't like discrimination. I wish we didn't have to have a human rights ordinance at all. That would be the ideal," Praeger said.
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