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Legislative Session 2006

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• Gays Pack Citizen Equality Utah Training Seminars
• Hate Crime Bill ‘Very Different’ from Previous Attempts
• H.B. 90 — CRIMINAL PENALTY AMENDMENTS
• Buttars Pushes Bill To Ban School Gay Clubs

Equality Utah Position Statements

It is Equality Utah’s position that all individuals have the right to protection from discrimination and bias-motivated harassment and violence.
      Accordingly, we support:
      1. Adopting anti-hate crimes legislation in Utah.
      2. Securing measures that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in employment, housing, public accommodation, education and extension of credit.
      3. Securing measures to prevent harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression in Utah’s public schools and in foster care and juvenile detention settings.
      4. Assuring that the juvenile justice system extend to LGBT youth the same procedural and other protections extended to all other youth.

It is Equality Utah’s position that all families, including the families of LGBT people, deserve the government’s support, protection and equal treatment in their roles as partners, parents and caregivers. Moreover, it is Equality Utah’s position that the children of same-sex couples are often the ones who suffer most when the government denies their parents the same benefits and treatment provided to all other families.
      Accordingly, we support:
      1. Securing measures to create domestic partner registries for same-sex partners.
      2. Adopting domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners.
      3. Extending state and municipal employee health and other benefits rights to same-sex partners.
      4. Securing measures to extend hospital visitation rights and emergency medical decision-making rights to same-sex partners.
      5. Assuring that parents in same-sex relationships be given the same adoption and custody rights extended to all other parents.

It is Equality Utah’s position that the passage of Amendment 3 should be interpreted as dealing only with marriage and did not preempt state or municipal governments’ power to extend any of the rights mentioned above to same-sex couples.

http://www.equalityutah.org

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