Are LGBTQ people the last minority group you can legally discriminate against in America? [View all]
Out Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) appeared on MSNBC to talk about the landmark LGBTQ civil rights legislation before Congress, the Equality Act. Cicilline introduced and sponsored the bill in the House of Representatives.
“The LGBTQ community remains the only community, that I’m aware of, in America that it’s legal to discriminate against and that’s just wrong,” he told host Joshua Johnson.
The House is expected to vote on the measure sometime this week. With the chamber controlled by Democrats, it is expected to pass easily.
The Equality Act is facing an obstacle in the Senate as Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) refused to co-sponsor the bill and won’t say why. She has previously co-sponsored it but is possibly upset that the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, endorsed her Democratic challenger in the last election.
Collins is seen as a moderate Republican, and the bill will need some Republican support to pass in the Senate. Given her past history of general support for LGBTQ rights, losing Collins’s vote could spell trouble for the game-changing LGBTQ bill unless Democrats are willing to finally end the filibuster.
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Seems, to me, a number of people are oblivious to the legality of anti-gay discrimination. The real question is this ignorance or willful blindness?
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