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   Apr 20, 2021 · April 20, 2021. Church Law. 0. On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act, legislation that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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   Jun 25, 2021 · June 25, 2021. FACT SHEET: The Equality Act Will Provide Long Overdue Civil Rights Protections for Millions of Americans. Briefing Room. Statements and Releases. Freedom and equality are...

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   What is the Equality Act?

   • The Equality Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide explicit non-discrimination protections on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The bill builds on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v.

   FACT SHEET: The Equality Act Will Provide Long Overdue Civil Rights

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   What is the purpose of the Equal Rights Act?

   • To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the “Equality Act”. SEC. 2. Findings and purpose.

   Text - H.R.5 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Equality Act

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   Will the Equality Act Protect LGBTQ+ people?

   • That’s why he continues to call on the Senate to swiftly pass the Equality Act, legislation which will provide long overdue federal civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ Americans and their families, while strengthening some key civil rights laws for people of color, women, people with disabilities, and people of faith.

   FACT SHEET: The Equality Act Will Provide Long Overdue Civil Rights

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   What is Senate - 03/17/2021 Committee on the judiciary?

   • Senate - 03/17/2021 Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. ( All Actions) To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes. To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.

   Text - H.R.5 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Equality Act

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4. www.americanbar.org › groups › crsjAnything Less is Less than Equal: The Structure and Goals of ...

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   • The Equality Act Is Urgently Needed
   • The Equality Act Uses Familiar, well-settled Legal Framing
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   It is difficult to overstate the need to establish broad, effective protections against the discrimination LGBTQ people still face throughout their daily lives in all corners of the United States. Lambda Legal operates a legal Help Desk, through which we respond to people seeking assistance regarding discrimination related to sexual orientation, ge...

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   The Equality Act updates our existing federal civil rights laws to codify the many court decisions and agency actions before and sinceBostock, and to fill in the glaring gaps due to Congress’s failure in 1964 to include protection against sex discrimination in its then-new laws governing public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also ...

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   Despite the concerns some express about how the Equality Act might affect religious liberties, the bill is not a danger. It applies familiar standards and will not destabilize the relationship between equality rights and religious freedom. Instead, our settled rights to free exercise of our own religion and freedom from the religious beliefs of oth...

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   May 5, 2024 · May 8, 2021 Megan Rohrer becomes the first openly transgender bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. May 1, 2022 Global Methodist Church launches. This is a breakaway group that left the United Methodist Church over its lack of enforcement of its bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriage.

6. www.congress.gov › bill › 117th-congressText - H.R.5 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Equality Act

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   AN ACT. To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes. March 2 (legislative day, March 1), 2021. Read the first time. March 2, 2021. Read the second time and placed on the calendar. Text for H.R.5 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Equality Act.

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   The Equality Act is a landmark piece of legislation that would expand federal civil rights laws to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in employment, hous-

8. www.govtrack.us › congress › billsEquality Act (2021; 117th Congress S. 393) - GovTrack.us

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   May 17, 2024 · Feb 23, 2021. S. 393 (117th). A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress.