Members of Congress, Faith Groups Send Letters to Obama Appealing for LGBT Anti-Discrimination Order

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1. Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Executive Action to Ban Anti-LGBT Workplace Discrimination

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Executive Action to Ban Anti-LGBT Workplace Discrimination

It’s not often that an issue is supported by everyone from born again Christians to liberals to rural residents to Catholics. It goes to show the tremendous popularity of a common-sense Executive Order that would ban discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

A new poll put out by HRC shows overwhelming support for this kind of executive order. 73 percent of 2012 likely voters favor such an order and support remains strong regardless of age, race, education, political ideology, and a number of other demographics.

When asked: “As you may know, under current federal law and in many states, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are NOT protected from discrimination in the work place. Would you support or oppose a policy that required companies that do business with the federal government to not discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people in employment?” 73 percent said they supported the policy, 9 percent opposed the policy and 9 percent were unsure.

The national survey of 800 likely voters was conducted for HRC by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research from November 9 – 13, 2011. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.46 percentage points.

Read the article and see the poll results at:

http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/americans-overwhelmingly-support-executive-action-to-ban-anti-lgbt-workplac