LGBT Activists Slam Martin O’Malley for Backing Limited LGBT Protections [View all]

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LGBT Activists Slam Martin O’Malley for Backing Limited LGBT Protections
LGBT Americans Must be Equal Under the Law, Activists Say

New York, NY (June 30, 2015) – Responding to comments by former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley in The Hill saying he supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Queer Nation demanded that O’Malley endorse comprehensive federal legislation that extends the rights and anti-discrimination protections given to all other Americans to members of the LGBT community.

“Martin O’Malley wants our votes, but he doesn’t know what LGBT people want and what we need,” said Duncan Osborne, a member of Queer Nation. “The LGBT community has rejected ENDA. We are pursuing comprehensive federal legislation that makes us fully equal under the law.”

First introduced in Congress in 1994, ENDA had a 2007 passing vote in the House after protections for transgender people were stripped out and a 2013 passing vote in the Senate after a sweeping religious exemption was added to the bill.

Read more at: http://queernationny.org/post/122873197471/media-release-for-immediate-release-june-30-2015