369
Seattle moves to recognize the rights of polyamorous partners (www.lgbtqnation.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
89 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66759116

A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”

The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.

Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

It was probably just the Mormons that ruined that for you.

I'm sure in a different time line where the Mormons where not so controversial and vitial in their role of stealing land from mexico and the natives then it might not of been so much of a bad thing.

But I think most of our laws against poly stem from the the feud between the united States and the Mormons. There was some drama about redrawing boundary lines or the Mormons wanted to succeed and the state/feds made poly illegal as one of many ways they targeted the Mormons. I think being poly was precieved as slavery. Which under the Mormons it probably was essentially slavery to be fair.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    This kind of ignores the fact that every country that isn't the US and never had Mormons still chose monogamy as the law.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    I'm american so my perspective always gets warped into telling the story as if we are the world.

    But yeah I agree with your point. More or less it was a fun snippet into history and relevant law.

    It's will all relevant because thats around the civil war and slavery. polygamy was kind of thrown into the same camp as slavery as I brought up. And to make it not from the perspective about the united states, much of the rest of the world was going through a similar experience and asking if slavery was nessisary. I can't tell you who took the lead but I can tell you we certainly where not the first. So I guess maybe it wasn't all because the Mormons, but who knows maybe it had a influence, the states could of still had it legalized.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    You mean the other Christians. Mormon men wanted to marry multiple wives, the other denominations said no fuck you to one denomination. They are all Christians.

    In law, we still place our hand on a Bible and swear by it, etc. The difference is just that Catholics and Protestants and whoever else were already dominant in society when Mormonism arose, and the other Christians were threatened by that and were like like nah bro you aren't real Christians we run this land get fucked like all the other minorities

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    In the end all of the same to me. Different tools to a different means in a diffetent time.

    Mormons where the tool of manifest destiny and only was allowed to exist or go as far as they did because they where useful to the state. And in the end they reshaped themselves to fit the needs of the state, and cleaned themselves up.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent