Josie Weiland, senior at Stevens High School, challenged legislators to defend Senate Bill 128 at a Rapid City crackerbarrel yesterday. SB 128 is Senator Phil Jensen's (R-33/Rapid City) effort to pervert the First Amendment into permission to deny others' civil…
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Senator Ernie R-Otten withdrew his anti-civil rights Senate Bill 67 under the interpretation that South Dakota law already allows discrimination against same-sex couples. Senator Otten's position hinges on how we read SDCL 20-13-1, the definitions of our state civil rights…
Good grief. Lest you think the withdrawal of lesbian-Lakota-hatin' SB 67 represented a victory for equality, humanity, and the Constitution in the South Dakota Legislature, read Senate Bill 128. This fresh abomination... ...reiterates the First Amendment right to say pretty…
Two gay guys walk into a bar. "Drinks all around, barkeep!" they shout. "We just got married!" "No, sirs," responds the barkeep, pointing to the Christ-on-velvet over the jukebox. "We don't serve your kind here. Jesus says so." Alas, the…
That Sioux Falls paper summarizes the South Dakota results of the Municipal Equality Index, a nationwide survey of municipal laws, policies, and services respecting and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents and employees. Of five South Dakota metros surveyed,…
Two men from Ohio flew to Maryland on July 11. They got married on their plane on the tarmac at Thurgood Marshall Airport. Maryland allows consenting adults to do such things. The married couple flew back to Ohio, which does…
In somewhat more honest polling, Nielson Brothers release some issue data from their June poll of likely South Dakota voters and find South Dakotans willing to subject gun buyers to universal background checks but not willing to repeal their same-sex…
I have read with interest the argument between Aberdeen city councilman Mark Remily and Aberdeen policeman and State Representative Dan Kaiser. Remily says Kaiser supports excluding homosexual partners from protection under South Dakota's domestic abuse statutes. Kaiser says that's a…