Arkansas Supreme Court blocks local LGBT nondiscrimination measures

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Thu Feb 23, 2017 | 4:06pm EST

Arkansas Supreme Court blocks local LGBT nondiscrimination measures

By Steve Barnes | LITTLE ROCK, ARK.

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that state law barred local governments from enacting ordinances banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but justices did not address the law's constitutionality.

The unanimous decision voided anti-discrimination protections passed in 2015 in Fayetteville, a liberal city that is home to the state’s flagship university, as well as similar ordinances adopted by other local governments in the politically conservative state.

State Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, had appealed a lower court ruling upholding the Fayetteville ordinance, which prohibited discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in employment, hiring and other aspects of commerce.

Rutledge cited an Arkansas law forbidding cities and counties from extending nondiscrimination protections beyond those classes identified at the state level.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arkansas-lgbt-idUSKBN1622IB

[sinkingfeeling]

1. @#$!$ f...k.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Local control is fine with cons until local control conflicts with deep set religious prejudices.

[Initech]

3. Of course they wouldn't address the constitutionality of these laws.

Because are, um, fucking unconstitutional to begin with!