Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Equality Act: The Next Battle in the Gay Rights Movement Kicks Off on Capitol Hill

A coalition of liberal Democrats began a new campaign Thursday with a broad proposal to rewrite the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act to outlaw discrimination against gays in the workplace, in financial and housing markets, and in other areas of private and public life. Proponents describe the effort as the next gay rights movement.
The legislation, dubbed the Equality Act, comes less than a month after a Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, a 5 to 4 decision that prompted lawmakers who support gay rights and their political allies to set aside legislation that was more modest in scope and to advance a more comprehensive bill.
They'll tell you they want to protect Gays like this. 
When reality is, they don't need protection.
“The time has come to not just focus on one small piece of the puzzle,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the lead Senate sponsor of the measure, said in an interview before Thursday’s formal news event announcing the effort.
Merkley and his supporters had previously pushed legislation to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers from discrimination, winning passage last year of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act for the first time in the Senate. The measure died in the House.
THIS is who they really want to protect. They want to
FORCE YOU to hire or rent to one of these ...?
Rather than revive that legislation, supporters said the court ruling gave them the legal and political momentum to advance the much broader bill. “I think America is ready to take more steps forward,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), a co-sponsor of the bill and the only openly lesbian senator.
The proposal would grant gay people the same protections African Americans and other minorities have from discrimination in employment, credit, the housing market, jury selection and other public accommodations.
Baldwin and other supporters acknowledge that it will be a long process to win approval in a Congress that is firmly under the control of Republicans, not one of whom has co-sponsored the legislation.
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