Dozens of religious leaders in Tennessee have added their signatures to a statement denouncing the 2019 “slate of hate.” - NBCOUT
, according to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ think tank.Earlier this month, congressional Democrats introduced the Equality Act, a bill that would modify existing civil rights legislation to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, public accommodations, jury service, education, federal programs and credit. If passed, the federal bill would be the first to protect LGBTQ people across all 50 states.
And majorities of all religious groups now favor state laws that protect LGBTQ people when it comes to jobs, housing and public accommodations, according to a poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute this month. In February, leaders of the United Methodist Church, which represents the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., voted to maintain language in the church’s official documents that would “prohibit gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from being ordained as ministers and also prohibits Methodist ministers from officiating same-sex marriages,” according to the HRC.
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