Del. Senate committee votes down sexual-orientation discrimination bill

Doug Denison reports in the Dover Post:

A Senate committee today voted not to release a bill that would have added sexual orientation to the state’s discrimination laws . . .

Austin R. Nimocks, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, said the bill would conflict with the constitutionally protected right of religions freedom, and that such legislation opens the door for permitting gay marriage.

“It’s used as a legal sword to uphold same-sex marriage,” Nimocks told the committee

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