Panel Backs 2 Gay Men in Housing Complaint Question About Men's Relationship Key to Case

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AUGUSTA - The Maine Human Rights Commission on Monday found reasonable grounds in a complaint from two gay men who say they were illegally asked about the nature of their relationship when they tried to rent a house.

The case marks the first in which the panel found reasonable grounds to a housing discrimination claim based on sexual orientation since that protected class was added to the state's human rights law.

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Panel Backs 2 Gay Men in Housing Complaint Question About Men's Relationship Key to Case

The law prevents landlords from asking would-be tenants questions about children, religion, national origin, age, disability and, beginning in January 2006, sexual orientation.

Kenneth Bustin and Marc Bernier of...

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