Kim Davis' lawyer is fighting to overturn Jacksonville's human rights ordinance

[DonViejo]

By Dawn Ennis · Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Liberty Counsel is pulling out all the stops to try to block the legally-enacted human rights ordinance approved last month by city leaders in Jacksonville, Fla., filing a lawsuit in Duval County Court Tuesday.

The plaintiff is an unknown figure named John Parsons, a local resident represented by Mat Staver and the conservative legal eagles who achieved fame as the lawyers for antigay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, and for recently being scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court for misgendering transgender student Gavin Grimm.

As the right-wing Christian law firm did with “marriage,” adding quotation marks around the word as if to question the legality of same-sex marriage, its news release announcing the suit refers to the HRO as “the so-called Jacksonville ‘Human Rights Ordinance.'”

As the right-wing Christian law firm did with “marriage,” adding quotation marks around the word as if to question the legality of same-sex marriage, its news release announcing the suit refers to the HRO as “the so-called Jacksonville ‘Human Rights Ordinance.'”

The HRO purports to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as “protected categories” under Jacksonville law. As stated in the lawsuit, the authors and sponsors of the HRO intentionally omitted language required by state and local law “to deceive the Jacksonville public, City Council and Mayor as to the true contents and scope of the HRO. None of the twenty-eight (28) sections and subsections of the Jacksonville Ordinance Code purportedly amended by . . . the HRO are published in the HRO, either in whole or in part.”

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http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/03/guess-whos-fighting-jacksonvilles-human-rights-ordinance-yup

[Lochloosa]

1. What bullshit. No one here was deceived about anything.

The LBGT community in Jacksonville has been trying to get this passed for years and it has been widely reported on.

This was a huge hill to climb in this very red city, but in the end, the resistance saw the inevitability of it.

[NurseJackie]

2. This so-called "Christian" law firm and "lawyer" seem obsessed with homosexuals. Why?