Madison, Wis. is the first city to make atheists a protected class

» Madison, Wis. is the first city to make atheists a protected class » News -- GOPUSA: "Discrimination against atheism was banned on Tuesday in Madison, Wis., after a city council vote -- a first in the United States.
"Nonreligion" was added as a protected class by the Common Council under the city's equal opportunity ordinance. 
The legislation was co-sponsored by 14 of the council's 20 members and was approved without objection.
"This is important because I believe it is only fair that if we protect religion, in all its varieties, we should also protect non-religion from discrimination.
It's only fair," ordinance sponsor Anita Weier said.
"There are many categories that are protected... and it did occur to me that if religion was then perhaps the opposite should be."