Posted on 07/23/2015 7:38:54 PM PDT by artichokegrower
After 35 years as a couple, Dava Weinstein and Dorothy Calvani, 66, traveled to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2011 and got married.
When they returned to New York City, Weinstein, 69, wanted to add Calvani’s name to her apartment lease as a same-sex spouse. State law allows tenants in rent-controlled apartments to add a spouse to the lease without incurring a rent increase.
But after they both signed the lease renewal and provided a copy of their marriage certificate, their landlord said, “‘Nothing doing,’” Weinstein recalled. “And I wrote back with a copy of the regulations from New York state saying we’re protected and he still said, ‘Nothing doing.’”
So Weinstein, 69, contacted Lambda Legal, a national organization that protects the civil rights of the LGBT population – lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people.
Karen Loewy, a senior attorney at Lambda, promptly sued the apartment management company.
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I’m starting to think that ALL DemocRATS are either homosexuals or some sort of sexual deviant.
GOP should say “sure”, then attach it to a bill outlawing rent control, government enforced taxi oligopolies, and which makes corruption by a senior-level federal official a capital crime.
Absolutely. That is all they talk about. And the way they push it on school children is just creepy.
I will give your “bill” no resoect.
Or obeyance.
This is now war.
Why that would be just a stunt.
Bu not the civil rights of Christians and Jews.
You actually think this Dem gay rights law was passed by congress and Obama signed it??
What news source told you that?
Where are MY rights as a redhead to not be discriminated against? Seriously. Tired of the insults. /s
To hell with anyone using lgBT.
Bisexual is a slut. You can’t be “born both ways” and if you are it doesn’t deserve a political movement.
Transgender is a mental disorder not a positive.
So am I. Give the pair a ticket to ISIS LAND so they can learn about REAL persecution!!!!
Eight or a hundred billion sodomites and co-vaginalists bedding up and down for legality of their perversions will never make them right either secularly or holily.
Democrats are perverts obsessed with their genitals.
Except for killing babies, it’s all they talk about.
Seems to me the queers are already afforded more protections than any other group, certainly more than say Christian Heterosexuals.
I think they also need to submit bills that ensure Christians and White males are guaranteed civil rights.....once they start doing it sick group by sick group, ot will soon be that some folks don’t have any of these universal rights because there’s no bill stating they do and nobody cares about the Constitution any more.
” You actually think this Dem gay rights law was passed by congress and Obama signed it??
What news source told you that?”
Congressional democrats will introduce the Equality Act in both the House and Senate today, a bill that would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity to the existing list of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, protected against discrimination. The bill would also clarify that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act cannot be used as a defense for anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/23/the_equality_act_democrats_push_bill_banning_lgbt_discrimination/
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