{"id":138290,"date":"2019-03-13T19:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138290"},"modified":"2019-03-13T19:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:52:23","slug":"the-equality-act-is-back-in-the-legislative-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/the-equality-act-is-back-in-the-legislative-queue.html","title":{"rendered":"The “Equality Act” is back in the legislative queue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The analysis here<\/a> is, honestly, optimistic. Even though a significant majority of Americans overall favor the Equality Act — extending federal civil rights protection for employment, housing, and public business access to the LGBT populace — a majority of\u00a0Republican<\/em>\u00a0voters don’t.\u00a0 And so, presumably, the GOP in the Senate will block it, en masse or simply by Mitch McConnell issuing a pocket veto by not bringing it to the floor.<\/p>\n

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The only glimmer of hope is the Senate race in 2020 is as bad for the GOP as it was in 2018 for the Dems. There are a number of GOP Senators running in “purple” states (including my own Cory Gardner) that might find their race all the more difficult should they be too hardline against this bill, whatever their personal preferences.<\/p>\n

Will that be enough? We will see. Especially since the opposition is making it clear and loud their argument is that they have a religious right<\/em> to discriminate against anyone they want — in employment, in housing, in business services — and so adding another “protected class,” especially one they’re willing to publicly<\/em>\u00a0desire to discriminate against, is a profound wrong.<\/p>\n

As I said, we will see.<\/p>\n

Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em>Legislation banning LGBTQ discrimination could split the Republican Party – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But will Republican Senators have to pay any attention to it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,350,1142,25,378],"tags":[1741,1795,125,1200],"class_list":["post-138290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-state","category-civil-liberties","category-elections-2020","category-gay-stuff","category-intolerance-persecution","tag-election2020","tag-equality","tag-gop","tag-lgbtq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/equality-flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51825,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/the-unbearable-lightness-of-santorum.html","url_meta":{"origin":138290,"position":0},"title":"The Unbearable Lightness of Santorum","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jul-15 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rick Santorum, as interviewed by Rachel Maddow last night. 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