Support For Doylestown’s Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
The next three Borough Council meetings – Monday, June 21, Monday, July 19, and Monday, August 16 – are watershed moments in Doylestown!
Your progressive voices on Council are promoting an ordinance to bar discrimination in our community. Meanwhile, reactionary voices are summoning their troops to fight this. Please contact your Council members to urge their support and come out to these meetings so your voices can be heard or just to show support. Simply stated, we need you!
If you want more information or have questions, contact the lead sponsor, Don Berk at don.berk@comcast.net or 215-340-9355.
The ordinance includes:
1. Assurance that all persons regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or place of birth, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, age or use of a guide or support animal because of blindness, deafness or physical disability enjoy the full benefits of citizenship and are afforded equal opportunities for: a. employment, b. housing, c. use of public accommodation.
2. We need it because while most of the above minorities have these rights, the LGBTQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Ally) community does not. We are about making Doylestown an inclusive community.
3. The Life Partner provisions are designed to provide a benefit to couples to whom the state denies a right to marry and to provide a formal status for benefits providers who required such status in order to provide domestic partner benefits. The goal is also to give them a choice to get public recognition of their relationship. Council will consider separating the Life Partner provisions from the non-discrimination protection, so each measure can be considered on its own merits.
Please reach out to Council members to let them know we expect their support on this issue. It wouldn’t hurt to even e-mail those solidly for it, thanking them for their support.
Thank you,
Don Berk
Councilperson, Borough of Doylestown
Lead Sponsor of Doylestown’s Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
President, Bucks County Boroughs Association
Doylestown Borough shouldn’t be the Progressive playground for social re-engineering experiments at taxpayer’s expense. The Borough’s job isn’t to educate the public on any social issue. That is already covered by Planned Parenthood’s “rainbow room” and other such organizations in the area. That is not the role of governance of the Borough. $60K could go to a lot of other priorities in the Borough. Stick to the pretty planters, the parades, the Univest Bike Race, the Arts Festival, policing, zoning, etc. Doylestown is NOT New Hope nor do the majority of residents and people living in the Township who work, go to school, worship and/or visit Dtown Brough want it to be such. Get a clue!