As voters prepare to go to the polls on November 5th to decide on gay rights ordinance repeal, MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on the positions in the debate over human rights protection for gays and lesbians in St. Paul.
Campaign 90’s, the group seeking to maintain the ordinance, argues that gay people need to be protected by law from discrimination in housing, employment, education and public services. Citizen’s Alert, the group which successfully organized a petition drive to repeal the ordinance earlier this year, believes the rights protected by the ordinance are nothing more than special privileges.