cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66759116
A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”
The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.
Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.
Couples, polycules, whatever, we don’t need any government involvement at all in this; including with marriage. Get a job.
Anyone in a relationship should have the exact same rights as anyone not in a relationship. It doesn’t matter, don’t they have actual problems to address?
i guess you dont understand what it means being able to add your partners easily as co-owner of your things, being able to be covered by your personal public insurance, going to procedures with you as you are already legally allowed…
2 bed rooms could be enough for a 4 person polycule with 2 people to a bed. This protects them from being discriminated against vs a nuclear family home of 4 people when going to rent or even buy a home. This is what matters.
Stop complaining on the internet and “get a job”
It’s a discrimination protection bill. I’m an anarchist so I get the “get government out of this” impulse. Surely there’s a better issue to point your ire towards than an anti-discrimination bill. Or were you just looking for a reason to be mad at the idea of polyamory?
They don’t though. Straight mono relationships have significant advantage. Moreso with marriage.
You literally just highlighted the problem…