Yet local and national policy still discourages it.

The new policy also discourages supervising officers from opening sexual investigations without significant evidence of homosexuality.

The policy discourages polluting factories from locating in areas with large minority populations.

Although the division does not rule out cross-racial adoptions, its policy discourages them.

The policy also discourages keeping registered guns at home.

The provision, aides said, is intended to address farmers' complaints that the current policy discourages them from selling their land.

The policy would discourage such exploitation, Ms. Castro said.

Other parents complained that policies like the required five-day advance notice to speak at board meetings discourage involvement.

Though reaction is mixed, business executives said the new policy could eventually discourage the building or modernizing of plants in Louisiana.

Since then, policies have usually discouraged the use of forced aversion therapy on children under 14.