Officials: Bill defeat does not make LGBTQ discrimination legal

A local Job Service official told the Havre Daily News she is concerned that a story run in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News might give people the wrong idea about discrimination.

A Montana Free Press story titled “Five we followed” said that, with the defeat of House Bill 465, which would have included sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in the Montana Human Rights Act, “discrimination against LGBTQ remains legal.”

Havre Job Service Manager Carol Lamey said the failure of the bill to pass does not mean that at all.

“It is covered under our hu...