GOP-Led Town Is First in Pennsylvania to Repeal LGBTQ+ Protections
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports.The ordinance banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and ethnicity, and it covered employment, housing, and public accommodations.
Chambersburg, a town of about 20,000 people in south-central Pennsylvania, was the 70th and most recent municipality in the state to enact such a law.
State law does not cover anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.The vote to repeal the ordinance was 7-3, mirroring the vote to adopt it.
Council members who favored scrapping it cited “a host of reasons, including redundancy in the ordinance and lack of muscle in its provisions,” The Patriot-News reports.“We are a very diverse community,” said Bill Everly, the council’s vice president, according to the paper. “For that reason I don’t understand why we need to have special protections for people.
