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Iowa Senate Republicans re-introduced a Religious Freedom Restoration bill that s been shelved in several previous legislative sessions. What it does is it says that government must be held to the highest standards before it can infringe on a person s free exercise of religion, said the bill s sponsor, Sen. Dennis Guth. Critics say the bill is yet another piece of legislation this year that targets the LGBTQ community. We ve seen 15 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this year, and this was just the latest, and we re leaving the entire nation for the number of anti-LGBTQ bills, said Damian Thompson with Iowa Safe Schools, a nonprofit that represents 10,000 LGBTQ youth statewide. It s very distressing for many of our students. I ve seen firsthand mental health problems, risk of suicide, self-harm, etc, really accelerating this legislative session, because we re seeing problematic pieces of legislation like these ran all the time, said Thompson. It allows for discrimination against an
On Tuesday, Sinclair said the bill was not about being petty or targeting Des Moines schools. While this may have been prompted by the willful and intentional violation of Iowa Code related to education from Des Moines, she said, it’s a much broader topic of conversation that I that I think we do need to advance and I think we do need to have.
Two members of the Des Moines School Board joined the meeting to ask lawmakers to reconsider the legislation. I know there are some at the state Capitol who don’t agree with our decision-making, Board Chair Dwana Bradley said. I certainly recognize and acknowledge that, but I am also asking that you do not move this legislation forward and rather extend grace to elected officials, who took many factors into consideration in making their decisions that we felt (were) best for our community in the midst of a global crisis.
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Iowa Senate Republicans advanced a bill Tuesday that would broaden the state s exemptions for childhood vaccinations, forbid Iowa employers from requiring their employees to be vaccinated and provide other protections for people who decline to be vaccinated.
The bill, Senate File 193, passed through a Senate subcommittee after more than 90 minutes of testimony, with Republican Sens. Jim Carlin of Sioux City and Mark Costello of Imogene supporting it and Democratic Sen. Pam Jochum of Dubuque opposed. It is now eligible for consideration by the full Senate Human Resources Committee, although the Republican senators suggested parts of the measure could be rewritten.