‘Writing on the wall’: Why Idaho legislators target LGBTQ+ protections

‘Writing on the wall’: Why Idaho legislators target LGBTQ+ protections

Meridian Senator Treg Bernt faced a hard choice.It was September 2018 and Bernt was one of six Meridian City Council members deciding whether to adopt a nondiscrimination ordinance protecting LGBTQ+ Meridianites. Bernt told the waiting audience that he was appalled that the Legislature, which had for years heard calls to protect LGBTQ+ residents at the state level, had not moved on the issue. But he still didn’t believe that it was the city’s pl…