Alliance Defense Fund Joins Fight Against Anchorage Gay Rights InitiativeJan 21st, 2012A national conservative Christian legal group says the gay rights initiative on Anchorage's April 3 city election ballot, coupled with existing Anchorage discrimination law, undercuts religious liberty.
But a well-known Anchorage employment lawyer, Thomas Daniel, says he doesn't think the initiative impinges on freedom for religious groups at all.
The initiative up for public vote would extend legal protections against discrimination to... read_more Alaska Gay Rights Measure Likely has Enough Signatures to Make the BallotDec 9th, 2011Sponsors of an initiative to extend legal protections against discrimination to gay and transgender people in Anchorage on Thursday turned in a several-inch-high stack of petitions to the city clerk's office to put the measure on the April city election ballot.
Volunteers collected 13,515 signatures of Anchorage registered voters in support of the initiative, said Trevor Storrs, spokesman for One Anchorage,... read_more Alaska: New Report Shows Evidence of Discrimination Against Anchorage LGBT'sNov 17th, 2011Following a long and very public debate, the Anchorage Assembly in August 2009 passed an ordinance by a vote of 7-4 that would ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity in issues of housing and employment. Mayor Dan Sullivan vetoed the legislation a week later, citing insufficient evidence that discrimination was occurring against members of Alaska's... read_more
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