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House Passes LGBTQ Anti-Discrimination Act, Which Will Die in the Senate

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The House passed the Equality Act extending federal civil-rights laws to ban many types of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, with every Democrat voting “aye,” and all but 8 Republicans “nay.” It will die in the Senate.
The U. S. House today took a long-overdue step by passing the Equality Act, a measure addressing the anomaly that federal civil-rights laws don’t protect Americans from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. The legislation would cover discrimination in employment and housing, education, jury duty, and federal financial assistance.
LGBTQ-rights efforts have in the past divided Democrats, but every one of them, including those thought to be social conservatives, like Illinois’s Dan Lipinski, voted for it.

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