WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 17, 2014 — “This is a great victory in the work to end employment discrimination for LGBT people once and for all. The new, fair version of ENDA that the Task Force and many others in the LGBT community have been calling for has now emerged in the US House with both strong protections for LGBT employees and a new reasonable religious exemption — treating LGBT people the same as other protected classes. Thank you Leader Pelosi and US Representative Polis for your moral and political leadership in moving this forward. LGBT people need strong protections from discrimination and we have waited too long for anything less. Legal equality is legal equality. We urge law makers to seize this moment and support the discharge petition.”
— Rea Carey, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund
Congressman Polis filed H.R. 678 to narrow the religious exemption in ENDA and today he has introduced a discharge petition to on the senate passed version of ENDA, S 815. A discharge petition is a parliamentary procedure wherein if a majority of members of the House of Representatives sign the discharge petition, the measure may “discharged” from committee and be brought directly to the floor for consideration.
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