discrimination laws. the state legislature banned arkansas cities and towns from making that decision on their own. because the eureka springs council could see that bill working its way toward their relatively gay-friendly tourist town in arkansas, they preemptively passed a anti discrimination ordinance for eureka springs. all present voted aye. it was unanimous. they were not the first town to try this in a red state or even within arkansas. last summer, the city council and the college town of fayetteville also passed a civil rights ordinance for their town. but then the fayetteville civil rights organization got put up for repeal. the graffiti is a little hard to read but it's a three-letter word that starts with an f and ends with a g. fayetteville, arkansas, lost its discrimination ordinance, got put up for referendum and lost. same thing happened last month in springfield, missouri. passed a nondiscrimination bill but then the bill was struck