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On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, an ordinance was introduced in the Anchorage Municipal Assembly which would prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, financial practices, public accommodations, and education on the basis of sexual orientation and veteran status — adding these two classes to those already included in Title 5, Anchorage’s equal rights code: race, color, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, age, and physical or mental disability.

One week away from ordinance testimony & possibly an Assembly vote. Time to write those letters to the Anchorage Assembly, if you haven’t already done so.

Meanwhile, here’s a list — as comprehensive as I’ve been able to make it so far — of blog posts & opinon pieces favoring equality.  I’ve compiled a list of pieces that are anti-equality too, but see them on my Equality page — I don’t want to give them another link here.  And please do tell me if I’m missing anything.

Anchorage equal rights ordinance

Proposed ordinance

• AO 2009-64, “An ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Code Chapters 5.10 Equal Rights Commission and 5.20 Unlawful Discriminatory Practices.” Draft prepared for reading May 12, 2009. Anchorage Municipal Assembly, Anchorage, AK.

Facts about the ordinance (as opposed to lies)

• Equal Rights Ordinance: Focus on the Facts (Equality Works)
• 5/29/09. Equal Rights Q&A (Patrick Flynn’s Blog — Patrick Flynn, Anchorage Assemblyman)
• SOSAnchorage.net. Fact checks the Prevo/Anchorage Baptist Temple fundraising-through-a-pack-o’-lies website of a similar name.

Blogs & opinion pieces

Henkimaa.com

• Follow the tag Anchorage equal rights ordinance for all my ordinance-related posts.
• See also the category Equality, which includes posts about equal rights (including marriage equality) in general.

Bent Alaska. Your best single blog source for news & events in the Alaska LGBT community.

• Follow the tag Ordinance for all ordinance-related posts.

Other blogs.  Various other Alaska blogs have also posted news/commentary related to the ordinance, including  Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis, Progressive Alaska, Shannyn Moore: Just a Girl from Homer, Elise Sereni Patkotak, The Immoral Minority, What Do I Know?, Christ Our Savior Lutheran Grace Notes, The Alaska Commons, The Mudflats, and Mamadance.

• 5/10/09. …and justice for all (Patrick Flynn’s Blog — Patrick Flynn, Anchorage Assemblyman)
• 5/13/09. The noise begins — repost of my blog post posted at Henkimaa here. (Progressive Alaska)
• 5/14/09. Anchorage Assembly Gay Rights Ordinance — my 1990’s flashback (Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis)
• 5/16/09. Equality Works has a Fun-Raising party…more on Mike Method’s show — KBYR at 7:00 PM! (Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis)
• 5/17/09. Sermon (a poem) — repost of my poem posted at Henkimaa here. (Progressive Alaska)
• 5/21/09. Gays deserve all the protections of the law, Jerry Prevo notwithstanding (Elise Sereni Patkotak; published as column entitles “If anyone has a gay agenda, it’s Prevo” in Anchorage Daily News, 5/19/09)
• 5/23/09. HOW AFRAID ARE THE “Not So Jesus Christians?” (Shannyn Moore: Just a Girl from Homer)
• 5/24/09. Jerry Prevo shows the whole world his ignorance and intolerance. Thanks for saving us the trouble buddy! (The Immoral Minority)
• 5/24/09. “What they are not telling you about the homsexual ordinance!” by GottaLaff (Political Carnival)
• 5/25/09. Dr. Prevo’s Friday Anchorage Daily News Letter to the Editor (Progressive Alaska)
• 5/26/09. Perfect love casts out fear (Christ Our Savior Lutheran Grace Notes)
• 5/28/09. If it’s good enough for J.Edgar Hoover…. (Elise Sereni Patkotak; published as column entitled “Unlike gays, church has its ‘special’ rights” in Anchorage Daily News, 5/26/09)
• 5/28/09. Men Jerry Prevo Would Ban from Anchorage Schools (What Do I Know?)
• 5/28/09. Equal Rights; Our Problem Just Got Holier Than Thou (The Alaska Commons)
• 5/29/09. Fundamentalists raise bar of intolerance by Alan Boraas (Anchorage Daily News)
• 5/29/09. Civil rights activist now focuses on gays by Steve Haycox (Anchorage Daily News)
• 5/29/09. Equal Rights Q&A (Patrick Flynn’s Blog — Patrick Flynn, Anchorage Assemblyman)
• 5/29/09. Out, out, demon hatred (Christ Our Savior Lutheran Grace Notes)
• 5/29/09. Please Help Bring Equal Rights to Anchorage! (The Alaska Commons)
• 5/30/09. What renews my belief in humanity (Elise Sereni Patkotak)
• 5/30/09. HATE; The Real Antichrist (Shannyn Moore: Just a Girl from Homer; reposted at the Alaska Report)
• 5/30/09. Fear and Loathing in Alaska (The Immoral Minority)
• 5/30/09. Isn’t There an Ice Floe Somewhere That Needs a Homophobic Preacher? (The Mudflats)
• 5/30/09. Saturday Alaska Progressive Blog Roundup – May 31, 2009 – Part One — The Quality of Writing at Our Blogs (Progressive Alaska)
• 5/31/09. All You Need is Love (Mamadance)
• 6/1/09. Check this out (Elise Sereni Patkotak)
• 6/1/09. Homophobes and their motives (Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis)
• 6/1/09. Beware of beards in women’s bathrooms by Andrew Halcro (Alaska Dispatch)
• 6/1/09. It’s time for city to stand for equality by Cynthia Toohey and Arliss Sturgulewski (Anchorage Daily News)
• 6/2/09. Paint This Town EQUAL! (Alaska Commons)