{"id":116080,"date":"2017-02-10T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116080"},"modified":"2017-02-10T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T04:44:03","slug":"house-kills-bill-prohibit-sexual-orientation-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116080","title":{"rendered":"House kills sexual orientation discrimination bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13725\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota House has rejected a measure that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was defeated 69-22 on Friday, the latest defeat for an idea that\u2019s gone down three other times in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Fargo Democrat Josh Boschee is the state\u2019s first openly gay legislator and is the main sponsor of the legislation. Boschee and others say that many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people fear they could lose their jobs or residences under current state law.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents have argued it\u2019s unnecessary and could force businesses and religious organizations to go against their own convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Doug Burgum supported the bill. He says everyone deserves to be treated equally, and the state needs to think about competing with other states for workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota House has rejected a measure that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The bill was defeated 69-22 on Friday, the latest defeat for an idea that\u2019s gone down three other times in recent years. Fargo Democrat Josh Boschee is the state\u2019s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116092,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116080\/revisions\/116092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}