The House bill, which passed by a vote of 224-206, would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and several others. It would ban anti-LGBT discrimination in employment, education, housing, public accommodations, jury selection, credit and federal programs.
Republicans argue that the Equality Act is a threat to religious freedom that would force people of faith to do business with LGBT people, even if it conflicts with a person's sincerely held religious beliefs.
Will, not could. There are a couple dem Senators that don’t support it either.
Don't expect conservatives to be honest brokers regarding equality when they refuse to acknowledge having spent the last 50+ years transforming the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and abolition into the White Grievance Party of George Wallace and segregation.
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