Photo by Chip Somovilla/Getty Imag WASHINGTON -- The Senate has approved a bill outlawg workplace discrimatn agast gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins. The vote reflected the natn's rapidly evolvg attu toward gay rights nearly two s after Congrs rejected same-sex marriage. The fal tally was 64-32. Dpe the bipartisan vote, the measure's chanc the Hoe are dim. Speaker John Boehner lls the shots, and he oppos the bill. Gay rights advot hailed Senate passage
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- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- SENATE’S APPROVAL OF GAY RIGHTS BILL REFLECTS CHANGG ATTUS
- SENATE PASS GAY RIGHTS BILL
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
Tammy Baldw, D-Wis., the first openly gay lawmaker elected to the Senate.
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SENATE’S APPROVAL OF GAY RIGHTS BILL REFLECTS CHANGG ATTUS
It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac.
SENATE PASS GAY RIGHTS BILL
People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor.
Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted. Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm. ”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty.