For Star subscribers: Sen. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, says SB 1694 helps people be treated as equals by banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs from local governments and Arizona's university system.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Saying he was doing what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted, a Queen Creek senator got Republican colleagues to vote to outlaw diversity, equity and inclusion programs in state and local governments and Arizona's university system.It also forbids a public agency from requiring workers to engage in those programs, allowing those employees to file lawsuits.
People are also reading… Hoffman then quoted a line from King about children living"in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."But Sen. Juan Mendez, D-Tempe, noted that proponents of the measure fail to understand that not everyone is coming from the same starting point nor are they born with equal advantages.
Also off limits would be advancing any theories of a host of theories ranging from unconscious or implicit bias and systemic oppression to inclusive language and neopronouns.
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