Posted on 04/30/2012 7:53:40 PM PDT by SmithL
For the first time, California would ask its contractors if they are gay under legislation passed Monday by the Assembly.
The measure, Assembly Bill 1960, would enable the owners of businesses that contract with the state to identify themselves as gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual. It would not require them to do so.
The Assembly vote was 47-24, with only one Republican supporting it.
The Department of General Services currently is required to collect data on contractors by race, ethnicity and gender. AB 1960 would add LGBT-owned businesses to that list.
The bill by Sacramento Democratic Assemblyman Roger Dickinson seeks data involving state contracts for construction, professional services, and for the purchase of materials, supplies or equipment.
Dickinson said the measure would allow state officials and gay or lesbian groups to better pinpoint the extent to which LGBT-owned businesses are helping to drive the state economy.
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Do they offer affirmative action for transgendered lesbians? I’m into chicks but I’m trapped in a man’s body.
Now I must have an operation to be competitive with State contracts?
Why do we need to know the extent to which gay lesbian owned businesses are driving the state economy? Why does that matter? Or do they want to have data to prove that homosexual businesses are being discriminated against, so that they can then implement an affirmative action plan?
Give the "Alinsky treatment" right back to the Libs!
Why would God “bless America”?
Sick stuff; it appears the most liberal nonsense is coming out of the dying states (as the European Christians that built this country flee them). No accident that the most liberal states are the most “diverse”; it is easy to push this sh!t through when 1/2 of your residents don’t even speak English (and can’t vote against it anyway).
In 10 years you’re going to have to prove you’re gay to work in California.
Just saying so won’t cut it.
On your knees, comrade!
All this pretense when the actual goal is to filter out “straight” and “white.”
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