COLUMBUS, Ohio - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared Saturday that the Equality Act would be his top legislative priority, an effort to enshrine LGBTQ protections into the nation’s labour and civil rights laws. “It’s wrong and it is immoral what they’re doing,” Biden said of the Trump administration. “Just like with racial justice and women’s rights, we are seeing pushback against all the progress we’ve made toward equality,” Biden said. Copeland said HRC has identified about 1.8 million “equality voters” in Ohio, including 400,000 LGBTQ citizens, plus their family members, friends and other allies. “They talked about basic, fundamental rights.” With the resulting House majority, Biden noted, the Equality Act has gotten further than ever before.

Source: thestar June 01, 2019 19:26 UTC