Republicans Are Trying To Kill An LGBT Bill In Congress By Arguing It Hurts Women

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Republicans Are Trying To Kill An LGBT Bill In Congress By Arguing It Hurts Women
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“Women, lesbians, and families become the collateral damage.”

Republican Rep. Tom McClintock of California got on the bandwagon as well, adopting the sort of language we’ve come to expect on the left.

Though the Equality Act was first introduced during a Republican controlled Congress in 2015, it died. With Democrats holding the gavel in the House, they’ve seized the opportunity — even if the bill is a dead man walking in the Senate.

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