Standard-Examiner: Ogden Should Quit Stalling and Ban Discrimination Against Gays

Eight months is far too long for a no-brainer human rights measure such as this to have languished on the City Council back burner

Yes, small minds will seize on something like this to accuse others of promoting homosexuality, and small minds make noise. It takes courage to stand up to them. That's where leadership comes in.

Charles Trentelman, Standard-Examiner
Ogden should quit stalling and ban discrimination against gays
January 4, 2011

Excellent Wasatch Rambler column in this morning's Standard-Examiner, joining with Weber County Forum in urging the Ogden City Council to do "the right thing -- and the smart thing," and to pass a strong ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation without further delay:

• Ogden should quit stalling and ban discrimination against gays

Coincidentally, the council selects new leadership this evening (see agenda item #9), so hopefully we'll have a new council chair with the courage to quickly and decisively ramrod this proposed measure over Boss Godfrey's small minded, patently transparent, passive-aggressive stonewalling. As Trentelman aptly notes, "[t]hat's where leadership comes in."

Eight months is far too long for a no-brainer human rights measure such as this to have languished on the City Council back burner, we believe.


And what say our Weber County Forum readers? Can anyone offer any rational argument supporting the view that the Council should not pass this ordinance?