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Subject: KALAMAZOO GAZETTE -- Kalamazoo gay-rights ordinance suspended afterpetition signatures are certified - MLive.com
Congratulations to committed pro-family volunteers in Kalamazoo, who've now achieved the first step toward protecting their community from the threat this discriminatory ordinance poses to religious freedom and the privacy rights of women and children.
Now we face a ballot campaign in which the opposition will be funded by homosexual Kalamazoo billionaire Jon Stryker. Your generous support will be vital and deeply appreciated.
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"The city of Kalamazoo's new ordinance providing discrimination protections to gays, lesbians and transgender individuals is now suspended after Kalamazoo City Clerk Scott Borling certified petitions opposing the new law today. The Kalamazoo City Commission must decide Monday night whether to permanently rescind the ordinance or put it on the Nov. 3 ballot for city voters to decide its future. ...(S)ignatures submitted Wednesday by the anti-ordinance group Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination were ruled valid after they were checked against current city voter registration records."
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KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
Kalamazoo, Michigan
July 30, 2009
Kalamazoo gay-rights ordinance suspended
after petition signatures are certified
by Kathy Jessup | Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- The city of Kalamazoo's new ordinance providing discrimination protections to gays, lesbians and transgender individuals is now suspended after Kalamazoo City Clerk Scott Borling certified petitions opposing the new law today.
The Kalamazoo City Commission must decide Monday night whether to permanently rescind the ordinance or put it on the Nov. 3 ballot for city voters to decide its future.
According to Borling, 1,624 of the 2,073 signatures submitted Wednesday by the anti-ordinance group Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination were ruled valid after they were checked against current city voter registration records. The group needed 1,273 valid signatures.
The Kalamazoo City Charter requires a city ordinance that is successfully challenged by referendum petitions to be immediately suspended. In addition, the commission is mandated to act at its next regularly scheduled meeting to either rescind the ordinance or send the matter to voters.
Commissioners will meet in regular session at 7 p.m. Monday in the commission chambers on the second floor of Kalamazoo City Hall, 241 W. South St.
The ordinance, advocated by local gay-rights group Kalamazoo Alliance for Equality, made it a city violation to discriminate against persons who are gay, lesbian or transgender in matters of employment, housing and access to public accommodations.
The provisions went into effect July 9.
City officials reported no complaints had been filed under the local law before it ended late Thursday when the petitions were certified.
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/07/kalamazoo_gayrights_ordinance_1.html
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