MPR’s Chris Roberts reports that the battle lines that marked the fight over passage of Minnesota’s Human Rights Bill have not gone away. Roberts interviews numerous individuals on the law’s effect.

In 1993, after years of sometimes rancorous debate, the Minnesota legislature passed a bill adding sexual orientation to the state's human rights law. It guaranteed gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people the same protection from discrimination in employment, education, housing, and private and public services, as everyone else.