CEDAR RAPIDS — Predictions were extreme — expensive litigation, employers forced to hire or keep bad employees, creating special rights, erosion of morals, pedophile teachers in elementary schools, and workers dressed like “Christmas trees.” If Cedar Rapids City Council expanded its municipal code in 1999 to discourage discrimination based on sexual orientation in workplaces, housing, education, credit, and public accommodation, it would have dire and lasting repercussions, opponents said at the time.
Comment on Fallout from controversial 1999 Cedar Rapids civil rights vote offers lessons for today
B.A. Morelli, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 5:18pm
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