EXERCISE OF RIGHTS TO SPEECH AND ACTION
GUARANTEED TO ALL CITIZENS UNDER THE
CONSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
(b) Declaration of policy and purpose. It is the public policy of the
City of Minneapolis and the purpose of this title:
(1) To recognize and declare that the opportunity to obtain
employment, labor union membership, housing
accommodations, property rights, education, public
accommodations and public services without discrimination
based on race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin,
sex, including sexual harassment AND PORNOGRAPHY,
af ectional preference, disability, age, marital status, or status
with regard to public assistance or to obtain housing
accommodations without discrimination based on familial status
is a civil right;
(2) To prevent and prohibit al discriminatory practices based
on race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex,
including sexual harassment AND PORNOGRAPHY,
af ectional preference, disability, age, marital status, or status
with regard to public assistance with respect to employment,
labor union membership, housing accommodations, property
rights, education, public accommodations or public services;
(3) To prevent and prohibit al discriminatory practices based
on familial status with respect to housing accommodations;
(4) TO PREVENT AND PROHIBIT ALL
DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES OF SEXUAL
SUBORDINATION OR INEQUALITY THROUGH
PORNOGRAPHY;
(5) To protect al persons from unfounded charges of
discriminatory practices;
(6) To eliminate existing and the development of any ghettos in
the community; and
(7) To ef ectuate the foregoing policy by means of public
information and education, mediation and conciliation, and
enforcement
Section 3. That Section 139. 20 of the above-entitled ordinance be
amended by adding thereto a new subsection (gg) to read as
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fol ows:
(gg) Pornography. Pornography is a form of discrimination on the
basis of sex.
(1) Pornography is the sexually explicit subordination of
women, graphically depicted, whether in pictures or in words,
that also includes one or more of the fol owing:
(i) women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects,
