奥林匹亚将成为华盛顿州首个通过防止多元恋爱关系歧视条例的城市
作者：Rachel del Guidice
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年1月20日 美国东部时间晚上9:00
华盛顿州首府奥林匹亚市正在推进一项条例，支持者称该条例将保护多元恋爱关系和其他非传统家庭免受歧视。
“面对这类问题，你会发现，不是人们隐姓埋名，而是他们很难公开谈论这些事情，因为这是非常私人的事情，我们希望他们在我们的社区感到受欢迎，而不是被排斥，”奥林匹亚市议会成员罗伯特·范德普尔（Robert Vanderpool）告诉KOMO新闻。
该条例草案将使“家庭或关系结构”成为奥林匹亚现行民权保护中的受保护类别。多元恋爱关系通常指包含多个恋爱伴侣的关系，与典型的一夫一妻制关系相对。
该市在向福克斯新闻数字版提供的信息中表示，该条例将涵盖但不限于“家庭内部的相互关系构成、成年自愿者之间的亲密个人关系参与、非规范和非核心家庭安排，包括多伴侣和多父母家庭、混合家庭（继亲）、多代同堂家庭、自愿单亲家庭、选择家庭以及类似结构。”
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“我认为最大的问题是住房，拥有多元恋爱关系或非一夫一妻制关系的人，甚至是选择家庭的人，很难在选择家庭中把某人纳入他们的抵押贷款，”范德普尔说。
据KOMO新闻报道，市领导正在与奥克兰的多元恋爱关系与伦理非一夫一妻制组织（OPEN）等活动人士合作，协助起草该条例。
“OPEN的研究发现，60%的非一夫一妻制人士报告称，他们因家庭或关系结构而遭受污名化或歧视，”OPEN执行董事布雷特·张伯伦（Brett Chamberlain）在文章中称。“这可能表现为家庭排斥、社会排斥、被拒绝晋升甚至解雇、被儿童保护服务部门调查、被医疗服务提供者拒绝提供医疗服务，或被心理健康护理提供者污名化。”
KOMO新闻报道，如果该条例通过，奥林匹亚将成为“华盛顿州首个解决日益增多的多元结构家庭问题的城市。”
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张伯伦在一份声明中告诉福克斯新闻数字版：“这些保护至关重要，因为家庭和关系结构已经发生了根本性变化。只有18%的美国家庭符合‘传统’核心家庭模式，但我们的法律尚未跟上这一现实。目前约有5%的成年人处于双方同意的非一夫一妻制关系中，一生中会有五分之一的人经历这种情况。”
他表示，预计该条例将于2月9日通过，这将使“奥林匹亚成为华盛顿州首个，也是全国第五个（继2023年马萨诸塞州萨默维尔和剑桥市以及2024年加利福尼亚州伯克利和奥克兰市之后）建立此类保护措施的城市。”
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保守派电台主持人、《西雅图红报》专栏作家杰森·兰茨（Jason Rantz）在一份声明中表示：“这项提案假装是关于包容，但实际上是政府将生活方式选择提升为受保护类别，并迫使其他人去适应它。”
兰茨周一发表了一篇关于拟议条例的评论文章，补充道：“一旦你模糊了不可改变特征与个人恋爱安排之间的界限，反歧视法就不再是盾牌，而成为针对房东、雇主和家庭的武器。这种模糊的、由活动人士推动的政策制定，正是激进左翼管理城市时会发生的情况。”
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奥林匹亚市经理告诉福克斯新闻数字版：“工作人员正在准备一份条例草案，将在未来确定的日期提交给议会审议。”
福克斯新闻数字版已联系范德普尔寻求置评。该市位于倾向自由派的瑟斯顿县，在2024年总统选举中，卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）轻松赢得该州，瑟斯顿县也以压倒性优势支持她。
瑞秋·德尔·吉迪奇（Rachel del Guidice）是福克斯新闻数字版记者。新闻线索可发送至rachel.delguidice@fox.com。
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Washington city pursues polyamory protections in proposed civil rights ordinance
Olympia would be the first city in Washington state to pass an ordinance on preventing discrimination of polyamorous relationships
By Rachel del Guidice
Fox News
Published January 20, 2026 9:00pm EST
The Washington state capital city of Olympia is pursuing an ordinance that supporters say would protect polyamorous relationships and other non-traditional families from discrimination.
“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.
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“I think the biggest thing that comes up is housing, folks that are in polyamorous relationships or non-monogamous, or even chosen families – it’s hard in a chosen family to put someone on their mortgage,” Vanderpool said.
According to KOMONews, city leaders are working with activists such as OPEN, the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-Monogamy, based in Oakland, California, for help in drafting the ordinance.
“OPEN’s research found that 60 percent of non monogamous individuals report experiencing stigma or discrimination on the basis of their family or relationship structure,” Brett Chamberlain, executive director of OPEN, claimed in the article. “This can look like family rejection, social rejection, being denied promotion or even fired from a job, having Child Protective Services called, being denied medical care by a medical care provider, or stigmatized by a mental health care provider.”
KOMONews reported that if the ordinance passes, Olympia would be “the first city in Washington state to address the growing number of families with diverse structures.”
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Chamberlain told Fox News Digital in a statement, “These protections are critical because family and relationship structures have fundamentally changed. Only 18% of US households fit the ‘traditional’ nuclear family model, yet our laws haven’t caught up with this reality. About 5% of adults are currently in consensually non-monogamous relationships, and 1 in 5 will be at some point in their lives.”
He said he expects the ordinance to pass on Feb. 9, which he said would make “Olympia the first city in Washington and the fifth nationwide (following Somerville and Cambridge, MA in 2023 and Berkeley and Oakland, CA in 2024) to establish these protections.”
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Jason Rantz, a conservative radio host and columnist at Seattle Red, said, “This proposal pretends it’s about tolerance when it’s really about the government elevating a lifestyle choice into a protected class and forcing everyone else to accommodate it.”
Rantz, who published an opinion piece Monday on the proposed ordinance, added that, “Once you blur the line between immutable traits and personal romantic arrangements, anti-discrimination law stops being a shield and becomes a weapon against landlords, employers, and families. That kind of vague, activist-driven policymaking is what happens when the Radical Left runs a city.”
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The Olympia city manager told Fox News Digital that “Staff is working to prepare a draft ordinance that will come forward to the Council at a future date to be determined.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Vanderpool for comment. The city is in left-leaning Thurston County, which went easily for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election as she won the state.
Rachel del Guidice is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to rachel.delguidice@fox.com.
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