I'm sure most of you have heard the news regarding the IdahoHuman Rights Commission vote, the Idaho Senate State AffairsCommittee vote, and the Moscow City Council vote. If not, hereare some links to those stories:
Idaho Human Rights Commission vote:http://citydesk.boiseweekly.com/2009/02/idaho-human-rights-commissions-big-but.html
Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee vote:http://www.idahostatesman.com/idahopolitics/story/674857.html
Moscow City Council vote:http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-mar0309-moscow_gender_discrimination.2055bfcc.html
We are getting a lot of national coverage for all three stories,but I thought I'd include the local coverage.
Needless to say, we are extremely dissapointed and attempting torecover as quickly as possible. Many of us are meeting on aweekly basis to develop a plan and if you would like to beinvolved, please contact me. We have decided to hold a rally inresponse to the lack of support for equal rights on April 4th at1:00pm in front of City Hall. I expect ALL of you to be there.
If you can show up to protest the passing of an anti-gayProposition in California, you can show up to protest anti-gaysentiment in your own backyard! We don't have many details as ofyet, but I will be sending out updates on a regular basis.
Keep your heads up Idaho. In a 1965 speech in Montgomery,Alabama, slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.uttered the following words: "How long will justice becrucified, and truth bear it? I come to say to you ... howeverdifficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will notbe long, because 'truth crushed to earth will rise again.' ...How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe islong, but it bends toward justice."
In solidarity,
Idaho Equality
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