Tag Archives: Jason Schultz

The Des Moines Register reports: Over the protests of hundreds of Iowans chanting “no hate in our state,” Iowa’s Republican-dominated Legislature voted Thursday to pass a bill removing gender identity as a protected class in the state’s civil rights act. Democrats warned history wouldn’t look kindly upon lawmakers for inviting oppression of transgender Iowans. The bill, which Gov. Kim Reynolds was …

The Des Moines Register reports: The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that Republicans say will protect religious freedom, but that Democrats have described as a “blank check to discriminate” against LGBTQ Iowans and others. The Senate voted 31-16 to pass Senate File 2095 on Tuesday. The legislation would say that state and local governments shall not “substantially burden” someone’s …