New Mexico sides with equal rights. (Law).It's celebration when any state legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. and another bill outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Gov. Bill Richardson  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. has promised to sign both bills, which will then go into effect on July 1. New Mexico will be the 13th state to have antidiscrimination protections based on sexual orientation and only the third with such protections based on gender identity. "It's taken us 12 years to get this spot," Linda Siegel of the Coalition for Equality told The Santa Fe New Mexican. "I think the practical effect will be that people who have been fired from their jobs or who think they've been discriminated against now have recourse. Before, they couldn't even file a complaint with the human rights division." |
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