Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced on Thursday the First Amendment Defense Act, a bill that would provide a range of federal protections for individuals and companies that discriminate against LGBTQ people. And the bill defines the term “person” to include nonpublicly traded for-profit companies. But the revived bill ― which has a total of 22 GOP co-sponsors, including Sens. The reintroduction of the bill comes as the Trump administration has overturned multiple protections for LGBTQ people established under President Barack Obama. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in October released a memo announcing that federal civil rights legislation does not protect transgender people from discrimination in the workplace.

Source: Huffington Post March 08, 2018 22:18 UTC