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data-ttid="display-date" class="wpds-c-iKQyrV">July 20, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT</span></div></div></div></hear></div><article class="grid-article mb-xxl-ns" data-qa="ma"><div data-ttid="le-art" data-qa="le-art" class=""><figure class="overflow-hidn relative hi-for-prt center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-to-ns mr-to-ns grid-mobile-full-bleed"><div style="filter:blur(10px);transn:filter .1s;le-height:0" class="w-100 mw-100 h-to" width="600" height="414"><img style="background-size:ver;max-width:1600px;background-image:url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//; xmlns%3Axlk='http%3A//; viewBox='0 0 1280 853'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' lor-terpolatn-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGssianBlur stdDeviatn='.5'%3E%3C/feGssianBlur%3E%3CfeComponentTransfer%3E%3CfeFuncA type='discrete' tableValu='1 1'%3E%3C/feFuncA%3E%3C/feComponentTransfer%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage filter='url(%23b)' x='0' y='0' height='100%25' width='100%25' 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They nearly secured $1.8 ln feral<b> </b>aid for renovatns — until Hoe Republins mounted an extraordary blocka this week, nyg a requt to fund the anizatn and other lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced groups two stat.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Sce last year’s electns, Republin lawmakers creasgly have seized on the power of the feral purse, uplg their csa for stery wh a fierce ph to advance a nservative social agenda. At the height of the annual appropriatns procs — as members of Congrs race to fund the ernment and avert a shutdown — the GOP’s far-right flank has scbbed spendg bills to elimate money that would protect LGBTQ rights, ensure genr equaly and promote racial jtice.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The GOP mpaign, which has clud false claims that such spendg supports a form of child “groomg,” has shocked and enraged Democrats, who acced Republins this week of disrmatn and discrimatn. But the efforts also have threatened real harm to LGBT groups and others that pend on feral aid, which now fd themselv ught an latg nservative-led culture war.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“This is money to do wh social servic,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), who had requted the fundg that Republins elimated for the Philalphia LGBT center. “Obvly I am appalled and outraged by the bigoted actns that Hoe Republins took today. But I’m also eply ncerned about the slippery slope we’re now on.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For Republins, the mpaign to quash the three LGBT-related earmarks the Hoe illtrat the rise of the party’s far-right factn — and the extent to which nservativ are willg to voke the budget procs to advance their polil .</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Hoe GOP seeks billns cuts to rail, water astcture spendg</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The dynamic nearly overwhelmed the chamber only a week earlier, as Republin lawmakers scrambled to plete work on an <a href=" target=_blank>annual measure that thoriz spendg</a> at the Pentagon. Wh the backg of Speaker Kev McCarthy (R-Calif.), the roughly three dozen members the Hoe Freedom Cc transformed the bill — historilly, a bipartisan affair — to a ght battleground over abortn, transgenr health re and diversy.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Posssg only a narrow hold over the chamber, Hoe GOP lears largely have acced to the fluential bloc, which earlier this year sred multiple prized seats on mte that oversee the feral budget. Those perch have afford nservativ a potent avenue to shape spendg s earlit stag, cludg the opportuny to elimate entire programs that don’t port wh their social views.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In a bill to fund the Commerce Department and other agenci, for example, Republins this week claimed they would elimate fundg for <a href=" target=_blank>more than 70 programs that promote diversy</a>, equy and cln. In another foced on the environment, the party recent days aimed to wipe out a Whe Hoe policy that tri to steer feral benefs, cludg water astcture spendg, toward poorer, historilly disadvantaged muni. GOP lawmakers at one pot even pursued a provisn that uld ban feral buildgs om <a href=" target=_blank>flyg LGBT flags</a> durg Pri month June.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And a sprawlg bill that vers <a href=" target=_blank>feral health and tn agenci</a>, Republins proposed to prohib fundg for cril race theory, jettison feral dollars for safe-sex stctn and prevent the Bin admistratn om tappg funds to enforce a wi array of anti-discrimatn l, cludg those meant to protect transgenr children.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The most recent flash pot this week arose over “earmarks,” the feral dollars that Democrats and Republins set asi annually for projects their muni. Hoe lawmakers this year have prepared an timated 2,600 such requts as part of the appropriatns procs, three of which aimed to channel feral aid toward LGBT-foced anizatns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In Readg, Pa., Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D) looked to <a href=";!!M9LbjjnYNg9jBDflsQ!E56LWZxBNEGWa_eBXjA2g-YB4p6T8xLjgz2AwcLmrRRKdzJrys32wfAmq2o0gbqANMJYl1WADYRLfvCbZ2V1y0qJQcMcSykgSwM$" target=_blank>secure</a> $970,000 for the LGBT Center of Greater Readg, which she scribed an terview as an “important, wele source for people seekg rpe, who are largely young adults.” In Hy Park, Mass., meanwhile, Rep. Ayanna Prsley (D) tried to <a href=" target=_blank>obta $2 ln</a> on behalf of LGBTQ Senr Hog, a nonprof workg to vert a former public school to 74 affordable hog uns, hopg to serve LGBT senrs while servg as a new muny center for the greater Boston area.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“LGBTQ elrs might be a more prer suatn,” said Gretchen Van Ns, the executive director of the group, notg that the dividuals experience high rat of enomic secury and are “more likely to experience hog discrimatn and vlence."</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And Philalphia, Boyle advoted for a <a href=" target="_blank">$1.8 ln earmark</a> that would allow the William Way LGBT Communy Center to “renovate and expand their existg muny center to an expansive, fully accsible" facily, as he explaed his origal proposal. The anizatn’s executive director, Chris Bartlett, said the feral money would have plemented existg cy and state support on a project expected to st $40 ln.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The muny programs that we provi are ccial to the life and well-beg not only of LGBTQ people our regn, but their iends and fai and neighbors,” he said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">All three Democratic earmarks had been vetted by ngrsnal appropriators, and each cleared a lower-level Hoe mtee vote whout cint last week. Senate Democrats, for their part, siarly have requted money on behalf of some of the same groups as the chamber f ahead s own, unfished work on 2024 spendg bills.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">On Tuday, though, the top Hoe appropriator overseeg <a href=" target="_blank">hog and transportatn</a> spendg — Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) — unexpectedly unveiled an <a href=" target="_blank">amendment</a> that blocked the chamber om falizg feral funds for those projects, scribg the earmarks briefly as “problematic.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">They opposed the astcture law. Now, some the GOP urt s sh.</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The move quickly touched off a r, partisan bate. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) — a top appropriator and member of the Hoe Freedom Cc — at one pot aired multiple false or unsupported allegatns about the LGBT groups that stood to receive feral dollars. Takg aim at Prsley’s earmark Massachetts, for example, Harris alleged would be improper to try to aid homels LGBT rints specifilly, even though they experience higher levels of homelsns than some other populatns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The answer to discrimatn is not more discrimatn,” Harris said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">(Van Ns, the lear of the Hy Park-based group, said this week the state actually has a procs to place rints affordable hog programs.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Harris also attacked Boyle’s earmark Philalphia, fltg the center for allowg some lol liberal groups — cludg one that he scribed as munist-affiliated — to nvene there and plan protts, cludg agast nservative .</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“If the Ku Klux Klan applied for one, we’d hear an uproar om the other si,” said Harris, whose office did not rpond to multiple requts for ment. “That’s a First Amendment right. So I gus some First Amendment rights aren’t okay, and some are.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ments nohels served to unrsre the extent to which <a href=" target=_blank>Republins have targeted LGBT muni</a> this year a bid to rile nservative-leang voters. In state legislatur across the untry, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a rerd number of rtrictns that lim gay and transgenr rights, while the GOP’s printial ndidat have attacked transgenr athlet and rebed schools that teach about genr inty.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A roster of appalled Democrats on Tuday soon tried to rebut those claims, strsg they were bldsid by the GOP effort to elimate the earmark fundg.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It seems tentnally bigoted,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) told the mtee durg bate, addg that Republins are “targetg one part group of people, bee you don’t like their liftyle.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Earlier the day, GOP ais shared a versn of the transportatn spendg bill that left those LGBT earmarks tact, acrdg to a Hoe Democratic ai, who spoke on the ndn of anonymy to scribe ternal discsns. GOP ais to Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.), the chairwoman of the full mtee, prevly had raised ncerns private about the spendg, but they had not explicly threatened to elimate the three earmarks, the Democratic official said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Spokpeople for Cole and Granger did not rpond to multiple requts for ment.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“There was a qutn the mtee among members on my si whether some of the of taxpayer dollars were appropriate,” said Rep. Ben Cle (R-Va.), a member of the Hoe Freedom Cc who serv on the panel. “The bate was healthy, and ultimately the mtee cid to remove the fundg out of ncern that was not an appropriate e.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The oute furiated Rep. Rosa L. DeLro (D-Conn.), the party’s lear on the Appropriatns Commtee, who on Tuday flted GOP lears for havg “crossed a red le.” Turng her attentn to the Hoe Freedom Cc, she said that Republin lears once aga had tried to “plate the whims of some, who I might add … do not ever vote for appropriatns bills.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“You are negotiatg wh terrorists,” she said, a ment that her ais likened to former Hoe Speaker John A. Boehner’s famo past ments about his own party’s right-wg flank. DeLro later retracted the ment, facg cricism om Republins for her language.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In an terview after the vote, Houlahan said the cisn to cut the earmarks served as a “surgilly precise strike on a very specific group of people.” Dcribg the project an earlier submissn to the mtee, she said the money would have helped lol lears “work wh clients on life skills, fancial leracy, rume-buildg, job skills and other necsary areas while helpg them achieve permanent hog.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But Houlahan and other Democrats said they plan to ntue phg for the fundg, cludg the Senate, settg up a potential clash between the two chambers — and addg to the risks that a failure to promise uld force the U.S. ernment to shut down after Sept. 30.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“2,668 proposals went through the entire procs,” she said. “Only three didn’t make out of the other si.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Marianna Sotomayor and Isaac Arnsdorf ntributed to this report.</i></p></div><div class="wpds-c-ipATMk wpds-c-ipATMk-hCiGAB-removeMobileStyl-te"><div class="wpds-c-dhzjXW wpds-c-dhzjXW-iPJLV-css overriStyl mt-md tt"><div id="gift-share-end" data-ttid="gift-share-end" class="PJLV PJLV-idiqKOk-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-end" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-iIVoLq-placement-Shortcut foc-highlight"><div class="wpds-c-UazGY" id="gift-share-shortcut" data-ttid="gift-share-shortcut"><svg xmlns=" fill="var(--wpds-lors-primary)" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fVfumU "><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg><div class="PJLV wpds-c-kwcHlj">Share</div></div></button></div><div class="wpds-c-hcekgi"><div class="mb-lg-mod" data-qa="ments-btn-div"><button aria-label="Scroll to the ments sectn" data-qa="ments-btn" class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-kSOqLF-SQjOY-variant-sendary wpds-c-kSOqLF-eHdizY-nsy-flt wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-in-left wpds-c-kSOqLF-igqYgPb-css ments hi-for-prt"><svg xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp "><path d="M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z"></path></svg><span class="ral-unt unfed" data-ral-notext="te"></span> Comments</button></div></div></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css"><div></div></div><div class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css"><div></div></div><sectn class="PJLV PJLV-iipsdti-css dn-ns hi-for-prt" data-ttid="mostRead" subscriptns-sectn="ntent"><div data-ttid="lazy-most-read-parent" class=""><div style="m-height:800px"></div></div></sectn><div class="PJLV PJLV-ickXkbz-css"><div data-qa="newsletter" class="hi-for-prt relative"><div class="dib w-100"><div><div class="flex jtify-center align self-center center transn-all duratn-400 ease--out" data-qa="sc-newsletter-signup" aria-label=""><svg aria-labelledby="react-aria-1-aria" role="img" viewBox="0 0 100 80"><tle id="react-aria-1-aria">Loadg...

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RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.

Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

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Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

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data-id="d343ef93310db8a28e614941d8250f897c32ef34" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":460,"urls":["zoom_0.2315%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_77/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_460%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/d343ef93310db8a28e614941d8250f897c32ef34"," zoom_0.2315%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_77/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_920%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/d343ef93310db8a28e614941d8250f897c32ef34 2x"]}" width="460" height="259"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Prime Mister Stt Morrison and wife Jenny at an Easter Sunday service at his Horizon Church at Sutherland Sydney 2019. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">AAP</ce></p></figptn></figure></hear><div class="_2Xsxe"><sectn class="_2Bg2I P98rJ"><sectn class="_34rok"><div class="_1SJT9"><span class="_3Y35P"><span class="_3i9lf" data-ttid="AuthorNam"><strong><a class="wik9p" data-ttid="AuthorURL" href="/by/aaron-patrick-j7gdh">Aaron Patrick</a></strong><span> and </span><strong><a class="wik9p" data-ttid="AuthorURL" href="/by/tom-mcilroy-hverk">Tom McIlroy</a></strong></span></span></div><sectn class="AbPG4"><div class="_2cdD4" data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp"><time data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp-time">Feb 20, 2022 – 5.59pm</time></div><div class="_31gDS" data-ttid="ArticleTools"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleToolsLogTooltip" class="JSEcE WiPOW" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW _3KahZ"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="_1dFpl">Save</span></button><div class="G-AXw _3Xjsv" id="articleToolsLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="_3sIJa" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj _3jOVc" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb _1hJaj"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="_35K">Share</span></button></div></div></sectn></sectn><p>On Wednday, Febary 9, around 6pm, five wary Liberal Party MPs – each timately and sadly faiar wh homophobic prejudice – gathered the Parliament Hoe office of psychologist-turned-polician Fna Mart for a moment of llective solace.</p><p>Twelve exhstg hours later, three of them would be shattered, emotnally and physilly, after takg one of the most nsequential cisn of their liv. They would flict upon the Morrison ernment the greatt parliamentary feat s 1265 days of existence, a loss they were warned, repeatedly, uld ci the feral electn.</p><p>Three of the MPs prent Mart’s office sue – Angie Bell, Trevor Evans and Trent Zimmerman – are gay. (Assistant Mister Tim Wilson, who is married to a male primary school teacher, had been prent earlier.) The other two, Mart and paediatrician Katie Allen, are medil profsnals wh a history of treatg children.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="540" height="540" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":540,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>A ccial meetg took place the office of Liberal MP Fna Mart. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Domic Lorrimer</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>A televisn the room, turned to silent, showed Labor lear Anthony Albane givg a speech the Hoe of Reprentativ about a bill to prohib discrimatn agast stunts on relig grounds, but not agast children uncerta of their sexualy, or doubtg their blogil sex, by schools entsted wh their re.</p><p>Around 6pm, Jam Stevens, a young Alai MP, burst wh a two-page letter.</p><p>“Aren’t you watchg Albo’s speech?” Stevens said, acrdg to a person prent. “Have a look at this. Albo has jt tabled a letter om Stt, offerg him kids!”</p><p>The letter was passed around the room.</p><p>All wanted Morrison to end relig schools’ right to expel gay, lbian or transgenr stunts.</p><p>The letter, dated December 1, 2021, was explic. Exprsg appreciatn to Albane for Labor’s support for outlawg relig discrimatn – one of the Pentastal prime mister’s signature polici – Morrison promised to end the exemptn for “sexualy and genr inty” discrimatn created for Christian, Mlim, Jewish, Hdu and Buddhist tnal stutns.</p></sectn><asi class="_3kZQd _2H2M_"></asi></div><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR ArNEh" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><sectn class="_1WJ6z"><div class="_3Msim"><sectn class="_2Bg2I" id="endOfArticle"><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":596,"urls":["width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":540,"urls":["width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/></picture></figure><p>In practil terms, Morrison planned to troduce a new law and change an existg one.</p><p>“The ernment will move an amendment to remove the provisn of the Sex Discrimatn Act which was clud 2013 which limed the protectns provid unr the and other matters,” Morrison had wrten.</p><p>In Mart’s office, the group was stunned. They had been told Morrison had nied to nservative MPs he had offered protectn for trans-genr stunts. Eher he had lied, or changed his md.</p><p>The ernment’s official posn, which had only bee clear the prev day, was to make unlawful for schools to expel gay stunts. Other discrimatn agast them would be allowed, and trans-genr children uld be expelled.</p><p>“We’ve been left wh an amendment by the ernment that barely amends the Sex Discrimatn Act and leav many young people exposed to discrimatn, which is totally at odds wh what was promised wrg by the Prime Mister,” Albane told Parliament.</p><p>Mart, acrdg to a wns, photographed the letter and sent to Morrison’s top polil adviser, Yaron Fkelste.</p><p>“WTF?” she wrote. “Albo has jt tabled this.”</p><p>Thirteen mut later he replied: “Thanks”.</p><p>Mart rpond: “You have a lot of doubt here now.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos3-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Bell, a Queenslanr, had led discsns December wh Attorney-General Michaelia Cash and Morrison to outlaw schools discrimatn.</p><p>Thkg they had a al, acrdg to people who knew her, she took the reversal hard.</p><p>“Angie was bi herself,” said one MP. “She was extremely distrsed.”</p><p>The group felt Morrison had succumbed to prsure om the party’s relig right.</p><p>Allen, who aspired to bee a senr mister, wrtled wh her nscience.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _2ZFpX NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="1440" height="811" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.441%2C$multiply_2%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_395%2C$y_22/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2a7b4d1cfe81ab1e70d95b16bf6774e038cb26, 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Bell was “extremely distrsed”, acrdg to one MP. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>“Katie was on-off, on-off,” the MP said. “She kept changg her md. She was tryg to get her head around .”</p><p>In the Prime Mister’s office, Morrison and Fkelste were acutely aware a rebelln was unr way.</p><p>Zimmerman, meetgs of Liberal and Natnals MPs the day before, had dited he might vote agast the Relig Discrimatn Bill whout chang to the Sex Discrimatn Act.</p><p>“Trent rerved his right” to vote agast the ernment, acrdg to an MP prent. “He didn’t say much else of note.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos4-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos4-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos4-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Conservative MPs were adamant discrimatn based on genr inty had to stay. They didn’t want, for example, an all-boys school beg sued if cid to expel a stunt who cis he is or wants to prent as a girl, or e female bathrooms and change rooms.</p><p>One Liberal MP scribed their ments the meetgs as “a nga le of right-wg homophobic slash transphobic speech”.</p><hr/><p>Morrison, unr attack om nservativ for what they regard as a lack of prcipl, would receive two ma polil benefs om a new relig discrimatn law.</p><p>He would please the church, who reprented lns of vout Atralians, and possibly divi the Labor Party, where old antagonisms between the secular left and Catholic-fluenced right persisted.</p><p>But tougheng the Sex Discrimatn Act would negate, om the church’ perspective, the new law.</p><p>Twenty-four hours earlier, Morrison and Attorney-General Michaelia Cash had a meetg wh an pennt-md Tasmanian MP, Bridget Archer.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" 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srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35, zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35"," zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer: “They were no doubt how I was gog to vote.”<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Stg on burnt-orange uch Morrison’s private office, built for the buildg’s openg 1988, Archer said she didn’t want a Tasmanian anti-discrimatn law overled by a feral act. Morrison and Cash asked her to nsir abstag.</p><p>“I said I would nsir but was not likely,” Archer said an terview last week. “They were no doubt how I was gog to vote on the issue.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos5-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos5-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos5-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Tasmania had bee an important se study the bate when a Catholic archbishop Hobart, Julian Porteo, <a href=">was vtigated</a> by the state’s anti-discrimatn missner for distributg a leaflet schools opposg same-sex marriage. The plat was eventually whdrawn.</p><p>By Wednday afternoon, the Prime Mister’s staff had wrten off Archer and Zimmerman. They knew they uld still w the Hoe of Reprentativ vot by limg the fectns to two.</p><p>Morrison and his senr misters alloted the other potential rebels between them.</p><p>The Prime Mister rang Sharma twice. Cash, Treasurer Josh Frynberg and Foreign Mister Marise Payne lled the MPs they knew bt.</p><p>Fance Mister Simon Birmgham, the senr Senate mister, ntacted senators to ensure the legislatn would pass the upper hoe, cludg Andrew Bragg, who had mpaigned for same-sex marriage 2017.</p><p>They weren’t subtle.</p><p>“The msage was: if you oppose this we’re gog to lose the electn,” one Liberal MP said.</p><p>Parliament had ls than 10 stg days left before an electn would be lled, which meant the legislatn uldn’t be left any longer.</p><p>“We were heavied, joled, persuad [and] told var thgs about the nsequenc to the ernment,” another Liberal said. “It felt like the Prime Mister had put himself on a limb and was darg to cut him down.”</p><hr/><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos6-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos6-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos6-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>At 10pm, the dissenters were summoned to Morrison’s office. Archer and Zimmerman didn’t attend. Allen was walkg along a long rridor that leads to Morrison’s office when she was seen takg a phone ll. She didn’t go .</p><p>Insi, Bell, Mart, Sharma and Warren Entsch, a long-time supporter of gay and lbian rights, faced Morrison, Frynberg and Birmgham. Allen’s lotn was a mystery.</p><p>Sharma was a particularly awkward posn. A heterosexual man reprentg Wentworth Sydney’s eastern suburbs, his lol LGBTI muny was large and polilly active. He faced a well-rourced opponent pennt ndidate Allegra Spenr.</p><p>At the same time, out of loyalty to the ernment, Sharma didn’t want to st the cisive third vote.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="540" height="540" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":540,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Liberal MP Dave Sharma: “I had ma a mment to my electorate.”<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>“Trent and Bridget were crossg,” one MP volved said. “They need one more to make fail. They had to fd that one person.”</p><p>Mart didn’t say much. Entsch was willg to negotiate. He agreed wh a proposal to expand and accelerate a review by the Atralian Law Reform Commissn on discrimatn schools.</p><p>“One thg I realised, towards the end, was we’d phed as far as was gog to go,” Entsch said an terview last week.</p><p>About 45 mut to the meetg, Morrison got a text om Allen. “Katie’s out,” the Prime Mister said, acrdg to a person prent. “The meetg’s over.”</p><p>Wh two hours, a text msage went around om Wilson, a Victorian like Allen. “Katie’s back ,” said.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos7-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos7-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos7-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><div class="_2C6bw"><iame class="_1K-lX _2kKiG _3JJDE" ameBorr="0" height="157" id="iameRize390fd60d8adac8d88e079814b85ef0ece229ab19" tle="Embedd iFrame" data-id="390fd60d8adac8d88e079814b85ef0ece229ab19" data-src="></iame><img alt="" class="_36HFM" src="></div><p>Morrison and his team hadn’t given up. At 12.50am, after 38 other MPs had given speech on the proposed chang, Morrison stood at Parliament’s famed dispatch box and, effect, clared he had cut a al wh his own MPs.</p><p>A one-off parliamentary mtee would be created to work out how to “bt provi support to children and their fai those suatns”. It would be chaired by Allen and “supported by the member for Reid”, which was Mart’s electorate.</p><p>“Both have great clil experience addrsg the issu,” Morrison said.</p><p>Watchg om her office, Mart heard the Prime Mister mentn her seat, acrdg to a person who spoke to her later. It was the first she knew about the quiry.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _2ZFpX NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="1440" height="811" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2880%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":1440,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2880%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="1259" height="709" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1259%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2518%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":1259,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1259%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2518%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="800" height="451" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_800%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1600%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":800,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_800%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1600%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-src="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_414%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_828%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 414px" data-id="ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":414,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_414%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_828%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}" width="414" height="233"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Prime Mister Stt Morrison Qutn Time a few hours after five Liberal MPs voted agast the ernment.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Mart texted Fkelste seekg more rmatn, acrdg to the source. Morrison replied at 1.48am.</p><p>“I hope you will do bee will give you a b of sunlight,” he said, acrdg to the source.</p><p>Wh an electn due by May, the mtee would stggle to do much about such an tractable problem.</p><p>“We disvered this mtee was jt a farce,” one MP said.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos8-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos8-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos8-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>At 4.15am Mart got another text om Morrison, acrdg to the source, who was briefed on the munitn. “Can we please speak?” he said.</p><p>Mart didn’t reply. She was by crossg the floor.</p><p>Four mut earlier, Archer, Mart and Zimmerman had voted to protect all <em>stunts and staff</em> at relig schools om discrimatn.</p><p>By this time the terlockg stcture of the als Morrison had bbled together were g apart. The Labor Party, which didn’t want to stop relig schools firg gay teachers, sid wh Morrison, featg the first proposed change to the Sex Discrimatn Act.</p><p>But the Liberal rebels had three vot, which meant that Sharma and Allen realised they uld jo them on the same si as Labor on a more most change, whout beg blamed for alterg the oute of the vote.</p><p>Offerg Allen a mtee chairmanship hadn’t worked.</p><p>“Katie had ma up her md and didn’t want to be heavied any more,” one of her lleagu said. “It shows that if you are extractg the thgs unr prsure, you n’t be surprised if they don’t hold.”</p><p>At 4.41am Parliament nsired whether to ban discrimatn agast stunts for their sexual orientatn or genr inty by strippg sectn 38(3) om the Sex Discrimatn Act. Teachers would not be protected.</p><p>“The ernment do not support this amendment,” the Mister for Communitns, Urban Inastcture, Ci and the Arts, Pl Fletcher, said the chamber.</p><p>“The ernment’s proposed amendments, which I will move shortly, give effect to our mment to ensure that no child is expelled om their school due to their sexual orientatn.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos9-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos9-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos9-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Allen, Archer, Mart, Sharma and Zimmerman sid wh the Labor Party, Greens and pennts, which meant the ernment lost by 65 to 59 vot. Bell, Evans and Wilson stuck wh their lleagu.</p><p>“I had ma a mment to my electorate to elimate discrimatn agast gay and trans kids,” Sharma said last week. “It was important that I kept that mment. But I ma clear that I supported the Relig Discrimatn Bill and would vote for .”</p><p>Bell’s cisn was the most surprisg. “They got to Angie somehow,” one MP said. “We don’t know how.”</p><p>Of the five rebels, only Archer voted agast the Relig Discrimatn Bill, which was passed wh Labor support.</p><p>When the parliamentary ssn end at 5am, the mood among the tired Coaln MPs was tense. They all knew Morrison had suffered a blow to his thory and prtige. The electoral nsequenc were unclear.</p><p>Archer and the other rebels checked on each other’s welfare. “There was genue re for each other,” she said. “It was a b of emotnal support.”</p><p>The vot were a signifint moment parliamentary history. While is not unmon for Coaln MPs to si agast their parti, none changed the oute of a bill or rolutn between 2004 and 2019, acrdg to a <a href=">2020 study</a> by the parliamentary library.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849, zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849 2x" 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zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849"," zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Senator Andrew Bragg said he was prepared to back strengtheng the Sex Discrimatn Act.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Jam Brickwood</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>In this se, led to the failure of an important ernment policy.</p><p>The next day, the ernment cid would not ask the Senate to ban relig discrimatn, which means the bill will lapse when the electn is lled.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos10-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos10-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos10-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Morrison gave up after Bragg told Birmgham he was prepared to support, the Senate, the Hoe of Reprentativ’ cisn to strengthen the Sex Discrimatn Act.</p><p>Two other Coaln senators had dited they might cross the floor too, acrdg to another MP volved the discsns.</p><p>The ernment faced the unfortable prospect of implementg a law opposed and a parliamentary feat on an important policy near the start of an electn mpaign.</p><p>The Prime Mister avoid qutns om journalists the followg days. “There’ll be a time and a place to talk about those issu,” he said on Friday, Febary 11.</p><p>The media verage soon petered out, and Morrison’s office told some MPs to stop discsg the vote. Wantg the real story to be told, not all agreed.</p><p>“We’re not jt here to work for the Liberal Party,” Bragg said an terview last week. “We are here to work for the people who elect .”</p><p>After the vote, Archer got about an hour of fful sleep. She was ncerned about sleepg through the start of Parliament the same day.</p><p>“At the end of the day people have to accept what happened and move forward,” she said. “That’s mocracy.”</p></sectn><div class="_3nTt0 _1-k7i" data-ttid="ArticleFooter"><div class="_30U_H"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleFooterLogTooltip" class="JSEcE uxhXB" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="">Save</span></button><div class="_2jGyo _3Xjsv" id="articleFooterLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="KNEjM" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj E-qQO" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="">Share</span></button></div></div><div class="_28OFW"><button class="DAADa" type="button">Prt article</button><div class="nEW5f _39ULh"><a class="_2SABC" href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>License article</span></a></div></div></div><div class="_2ncsN UYykW" data-ttid="ArticleTags"><div class="_27M2O _2-Rvi" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver" role="alert"><hear class="_1slp0"><h2 class="_2iSlc">Introducg your <span class="_3jl0N">Newsfeed</span></h2><button class="_1aHhd" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver-close" type="button"><svg class="_1SIxy" aria-labelledby="newsfeed article driverclose-tle" focable="false" height="1em" aria-label="Close" role="img" width="1em"><tle id="newsfeed article driverclose-tle">Close .

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