In less than three weeks, Congress will return to work from their summer recess and the InEquality Act could be brought up for a vote in the US Senate. It has already passed the House of Representatives with the support of every Democrat in that body, and a few Republicans as well.
I have to tell you, I am getting increasingly concerned about our prospects of defeating this legislation in the Senate. Already, one Republican Senator, Susan Collins of Maine, has signed on as a co-sponsor of the proposal.There are a number of other Senate Republicans who have a history of weakness on LGBT issues that I worry could abandon us in this fight. And key elements of the LGBT community are working to dial-back the opposition of the Trump administration. The Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay and lesbian GOP activists, announced their endorsement of President Trump’s reelection the other day.
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