Last Tuesday, the Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously to approve an ordinance banning discrimination in housing and employment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The vote was spurred after the Church of Latter Day Saints issued a statement in support of the ordinance.
“The church supports these ordinances,” LDS spokesman Michael Otterson told the council, “because they are fair and reasonable and do not do violence to the institution of marriage.”
Salt Lake City becomes the first jurisdiction in the state of Utah to provide such protections. Read the entire LDS statement and find out more about how the ordinances passed at the Salt Lake Tribune. On Sunday, the Tribune followed-up with a piece on transgender acceptance in Utah:
Brandy Glines, a Salt Lake City transgender woman, came out at age 40. Nine years later, she says she still grapples with the judgments of others each day. She is attending Salt Lake Community College to switch from the health-care industry to accounting.
In a past job, she says, co-workers would call her “it” instead of “she.” At job interviews, she has been told she should move to San Francisco, because she won’t be accepted in Utah.
“People have a real tendency to discriminate against people they don’t understand,” she says.
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