Yes, even in the land of virulently anti-gay Sally ‘Get Your Gun’ Kern, some municipalities in the Sooner state are moving forward to offer protections against discrimination for it’s LGBT citizens.

On Thursday, the Tulsa City Council voted 6-3 to add sexual orientation to the list of protected classes for its city employees.

The city’s discrimination policy now reads:

“The city of Tulsa provides that there shall be no discrimination against any individual because of race, color, sex, age, religion, political beliefs, national origin, ancestry, age or disability or sexual orientation.”

With that being said, it’s important to not that members of the transgender community are not included in the policy, nor does the measure mandate benefits for same-sex partners of city employees, but regardless, it’s a giant step in the ‘left’ direction for the otherwise ‘right’ state.

In a great offensive move to thwart those who oppose protections for LGBT citizens, G.T. Bynum, the city council member who introduced the policy stated:

“The policy does not just apply to homosexuals, everybody has a sexual orientation. If a straight city employee has a gay supervisor, this would protect him just the same.”