HARRISBURG, Pa. — A state panel on Thursday narrowly approved new definitions of sex, religious creed and race in Pennsylvania's anti-discrimination regulations, with three members appointed by Democrats in favor and two Republican appointees voting no.
“It just seems to me that the Legislature has not adopted definitions over the course of numerous, numerous years,” said the regulatory panel's chairman, George Bedwick, a Democratic appointee. He called it “strong evidence that the intent” when the Human Relations Act was first adopted in the 1950s and continues to be "to allow the commission to define those terms.”
“I have been clear — hate has no place in Pennsylvania,” Wolf said in a statement issued after the vote. “This includes protecting the rights of individuals facing discrimination by a school, landlord, or employer based on who they love or their gender identity.” “The policy choice of whether Pennsylvania should extend the definition of ‘sex discrimination’ in such a manner remains just that: a policy choice,” Grove said. “As such, it is squarely and exclusively the prerogative of the General Assembly to pursue.”
Commission chair Joel Bolstein said in an interview this week that the proposal won't force religious organizations in which priests must be men to hire women, and that the state'sA group of 11 Republican state senators also weighed in against the regulatory change, saying it “operates in contrast to the intent of the legislature, lacks prescribed statutory authority and ultimately garners our disapproval.
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