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DO THE HOBBY LOBBY DECISN THREATEN GAY RIGHTS?
Meister, who is an out gay man, found The Civil Rights Agenda, an LGBTQ advocy nonprof anizatn to take on the kds of s. "Though most legal experts agree that race-based discrimatn is unlikely to return, the Hobby Lobby cisn is already havg an effect on the fight for gay rights the workplace.
Meanwhile, a number of gay rights groups have whdrawn support om the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, a bill passed by the Senate but stalled the Hoe that would ban employment discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. A se like that volv a form of speech, which a pany is paid to create somethg— this se, photographs of a gay weddg—that go agast s relig beliefs.
The pany, whose CEO, Tim Cook, is the natn’s most visible gay executive, has ployed s lobbyists to oppose legislatn that lims protectns for trans and gay people or their fai Iowa, Florida, Texas and at least six other stat. The pro-LGBTQ group Equaly Florida said an email that s staff hadn’t noticed any of Apple’s lobbyg agast the new state law that rtricts teachers om talkg about genr and sexualy the classroom, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.