cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66759116

A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”

The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.

Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.

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    11 days ago

    I’m american so my perspective always gets warped into telling the story as if we are the world.

    But yeah I agree with your point. More or less it was a fun snippet into history and relevant law.

    It’s will all relevant because thats around the civil war and slavery. polygamy was kind of thrown into the same camp as slavery as I brought up. And to make it not from the perspective about the united states, much of the rest of the world was going through a similar experience and asking if slavery was nessisary. I can’t tell you who took the lead but I can tell you we certainly where not the first. So I guess maybe it wasn’t all because the Mormons, but who knows maybe it had a influence, the states could of still had it legalized.