Key Highlights
- "With issues like this, you constantly find that, not that folks are underground, but it’s hard for folks to come forward about these things because it is a very private thing, and we want them to feel welcome in our community and not ostracized," Olympia City Council Member Robert Vanderpool told KOMONews.
- The ordinance being considered would make "family or relationship structure" a protected category under Olympia’s current civil rights protections.
- Polyamory generally refers to relationships featuring multiple romantic partners, in contrast to typical monogamous relationships.
- It would include, but not be limited to, "The composition of interrelationships within a household, involvement in intimate personal relationships between consenting adults, non-normative and non-nuclear family arrangements, including multi-partner and multi-parent families, blended, (step) families, multi-generational households, single-parents-by-choice, chosen families, and similar configurations," the city of Olympia said in information shared with Fox News Digital.
- MASSACHUSETTS DROPS CONTROVERSIAL GENDER IDEOLOGY MANDATE FOR LICENSING FOSTER CARE PARENTS The city of Olympia in Washington state is pursuing an ordinance that supporters say would protect polyamorous relationships and other non-traditional families from discrimination.
