~Jim Minnery of the Alaska Family Council By Shannyn Moore I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent in church, but it’s a lot. I guess it doesn’t matter since they’re not counted as frequent flier miles for admission into heaven. Some of my greatest life lessons were learned at the foot of a pulpit. [...]

Last week, an organization called Equality Works launched the One Anchorage Campaign for a ballot initiative to be voted on by Anchorage residents in the Spring 2012 Municipal Election. The initiative would add sexual orientation and transgender identity to the Municipality’s Equal Rights Code. Per the Press Release from Equality Works: One Anchorage Files Initiative [...]

In an effort to make sense of the conflicting information out there in Internet-land, I finally got hold of “Daphne DoAll LaChores,” the owner of the float and Ken Butner, the owner of the garage that was destroyed in the fire. First, here’s the background in the story I did about it earlier this month. [...]

Public testimony is over, but now the Assembly takes up the issue of Anchorage’s non-discrimination ordinance which would add the words “sexual orientation” to the city’s non-discrimination policy in areas of housing, employment, education and public accomodations. Here’s a message from Equality Works: You don’t have to testify, you don’t have to engage in debates [...]

The mood was different outside last night’s Assembly meeting.  Once again, public testimony was being taken on ordinance 64, which would add the words “sexual orientation” to the city’s non-discrimination policy that addresses housing, employment, education and public accommodations. As I pulled up to the library which houses the Assembly chambers, the “red shirts”, members [...]

You can stream the Assembly meeting live HERE. More public testimony will be taken on the non-discrimination ordinance. Chair Debbie Ossiander has stated that there are 250 people left to testify who signed up last week.  88 people were heard then.  Each person has approximately 3 minutes to speak, but people were reminded that all [...]

 By E. Ross at Bent Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has ignored a Gay Pride Month proclamation submitted by Anchorage PrideFest, but a proposal to add “sexual orientation” to the city’s non-discrimination policies caught the attention of Wasilla fundamentalists, who arrived in busloads to testify at an Anchorage hearing on Tuesday while their children protested outside. [...]

Thanks to Melissa Green for being a guest blogger today. Below is Melissa’s letter to the Anchorage Assembly regarding the Anchorage Equal Rights Ordinance. Public testimony will be taken this coming Tuesday at a meeting in the Assembly Chambers in the Loussac Library that begins at 5:00pm. Letter in support of Anchorage equal rights ordinance, [...]