A Florida city’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination law was struck down by the court. So they passed it again.

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On Tuesday, a 15-4 vote by the Jacksonville City Council restored the town’s LGBTQ non-discrimination protections after a Florida appeals court struck it down due to a legislative technicality in May.

Mayor Lenny Curry has signaled that he will sign the ordinance. It will go into effect as soon as it reaches his desk.

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Soon after the city amended its human rights ordinance in 2017 to include sexual orientation and gender identity in its 28 sections prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations, the Liberty Counsel, an anti-LGBTQ hate group that regularly challenges the expansion of LGBTQ civil rights, filed a civil suit seeking to overturn the ordinance.

The Liberty Counsel wrote that their clients were “deprived of their right to adequate notice, and that they had suffered or will suffer injuries to their rights of privacy, religious conscience, and business interests under the Code as amended.” The 1st District Court of Appeals agreed with the hate group’s assertion and struck the new ordinance down in May 2020.

While the court didn’t rule on whether the new ordinance violates anyone’s religious freedom or right to privacy, it did rule that the city council…

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