No Nice Park Pictures For You!
Apparently because there is no law in Richmond, Kentucky, saying that gay people have a right to have their picture taken in a public park, it is perfectly legal for some mouth-breathing, homophobic goat-fucker to chase them out of the park just because they are gay.
I defy even Texas to beat that.
at the Herald.
A state advocacy group renewed its call Wednesday for a Richmond fairness ordinance after a lesbian couple and their photographer contended they were kicked out of a park there.
"This young couple's plight is a perfect elucidation of the need for a local fairness ordinance in Richmond," Chris Hartman, director of the Fairness Campaign, said in a news release. "In truth, we need an anti-discrimination (law) that will cover the whole commonwealth, but until that law passes, local fairness ordinances in Richmond, Berea and other cities around the state are necessary."
Richmond Human Rights Commission chairwoman Sandra Anez-Powell said there was no law against telling the couple to leave the park because the city doesn't have a fairness ordinance.
Of the 23 human rights commissions in Kentucky, only those in Lexington, Louisville and Covington have "extended jurisdiction" to enforce discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people.
The others, including the one in Richmond, have "standard jurisdiction" that does not have those protections.
The issue of fairness in Richmond and nearby Berea was discussed last year, but neither city enacted an ordinance.
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