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Bill tackles gay discrimination
Posted 3/8/13
SALT LAKE CITY — For the fifth year in a row, a bill has been introduced at the Utah legislature proposing a statewide law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual identity or orientation.
In 2009, Salt Lake City became the first municipality to pass an ordinance making it illegal to fire or evict someone for being gay or transgender, and 14 other Utah cities and counties have followed suit. But for the past five years, statewide efforts have failed in the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature.
This year’s effort comes from Sen. Stephen Urquhart, a St. George Republican who says his bill deals with “one of the big issues of our time.”