{"id":14743,"date":"2016-04-12T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:23:45","slug":"city-mayors-dedicated-fighting-anti-lgbt-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2016\/04\/city-mayors-dedicated-fighting-anti-lgbt-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"City mayors dedicated to fighting anti-LGBT laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NorthCarolinaBillboard.jpg\" alt=\"NorthCarolinaBillboard\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NorthCarolinaBillboard.jpg 620w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NorthCarolinaBillboard-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nA new coalition of mayors from 10 major U.S. cities aims to fight laws that allow discrimination against LGBT people.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders across the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/murray.seattle.gov\/u-s-mayors-unite-against-discrimination\/#sthash.jadEpvWu.OgHvuycg.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">have created <strong>Mayors Against Discrimination<\/strong><\/a>, saying they formed the group in response to new laws that effectively legalize discrimination against LGBT individuals in North Carolina and Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s new law bans its cities from passing statutes protecting LGBT people, and forces transgender people to use public bathrooms designated for the gender they were assigned at birth. Mississippi&#8217;s \u201creligious freedom\u201d law allows businesses to deny services or goods to gay or transgender people. <\/p>\n<p>The group plans to apply economic and political pressure on these states and others that are currently considering similar legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition\u2019s founding members are all Democratic mayors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee<\/li>\n<li>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/li>\n<li>Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser<\/li>\n<li>Seattle Mayor Ed Murray<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney<\/li>\n<li>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf<\/li>\n<li>Portland Mayor Charlie Hales<\/li>\n<li>Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell<\/li>\n<li>Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales <\/li>\n<li>Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government employees from all these cities have been banned from traveling to North Carolina and Mississippi on official business. The group is also considering prohibiting contracting with or purchasing from businesses in those states, and will propose new regulations aimed at protecting LGBT rights. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe strongly that we should add more protections to prevent discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in the United States, not diminish them and deny people their constitutional rights,\u201d Lee said in a statement. \u201cWe as mayors must stand up together and call out discrimination when we see it, and I believe working together we can create change to ensure the rights of all Americans.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a moral and a legal obligation to root out discrimination of every kind,\u201d Schaaf said. \u201cBigotry and bias have no place in government or civil society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Political and economic pressure proved pivotal in Georgia, as Gov. Nathan Deal (R) vetoed a so-called religious liberty bill last week. In addition to outcry from politicians, major businesses like Disney and the NFL had threatened to boycott the state if the law was signed.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina is already seeing the economic impact of its anti-LGBT law. PayPal cited HB2 when it scrapped a plan to build a 400-person facility in the state. Other companies are considering taking similar steps.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mayors-against-lgbt-discrimination_us_5707d576e4b0447a7dbc23f0\" target=\"_blank\">HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new coalition of mayors from 10 major U.S. cities aims to fight laws that allow discrimination against LGBT people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City mayors dedicated to fighting anti-LGBT laws - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2016\/04\/city-mayors-dedicated-fighting-anti-lgbt-laws\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City mayors dedicated to fighting anti-LGBT laws - 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