A Family Values Victory in the South Dakota Legislature

By Dale Bartscher, Executive Director The Family Heritage Alliance

SB 161 – Discrimination Bill  FAILED on the Senate Floor on 2/23/2011 with a vote of 25 to 9 and it is GONE 🙂  

This bill was endorsed and promoted by Equality South Dakota (South Dakota’s largest pro-homosexual organization).  They were literally using our ‘Veterans and Military Members’ to advance their own not-so-hidden agenda.   It was clear in committee last week, in proponent testimony, that the intent of this bill was to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to our SD anti-discrimination statutes “in the future”.  

SB 161 was nothing more than a Trojan Horse Bill.  They attempted to ride the bootstraps of our Veterans.  This was wrong and our Legislators … WITH YOUR HELP … saw right through it – testifying to the fact that this bill was totally unnecessary.  

Please take a moment to CLICK HERE  and personally thank your Senator if he/or she voted NO on SB 161.  Here’s the list of these wonderful 25 NO votes: 

SENATORS:  Brown, Gray, Heineman, Hunhoff (Jean), Krebs, Nelson (Tom), Olson (Russell), Rampelberg, Schiekeway, Tieszen, Begalka, Fryslie, Hansen (Tom), Holien, Johnston, Lederman, Novstrup (Al), Rave, Garnos, Haverly, Kraus, Maher, Nygaard, Rhoden, Tidemann.

Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Pastor Dale Bartscher for this report and for his tireless work in support of family values in South Dakota. God Bless You, Dale.