House Republicans just can't stop dreaming up ways to discriminate against LGBT Americans

Rss@dailykos.com (kerry Eleveld) · Friday, July 08, 2016, 9:47 pm

Remember when same-sex marriage rights nationwide would finally allow the GOP to “pivot” away from all that divisive homo-hatred and strike a more inclusive tone? Yeah, well Jen Bendery has a post on House Republicans still being "truly, madly, deeply obsessed with queer people."

For the past two months, GOP lawmakers in the House haven’t missed an opportunity to slip anti-LGBT provisions into bills. They passed a National Defense Authorization Act with language to let government contractors fire people for being gay or trans. They tried to pass a 2017 water and energy spending bill with a provision barring the Obama administration from blocking funds to North Carolina over its transgender bathroom law. When Democrats tried twice to strip the anti-LGBT provision from NDAA, Republicans overruled them.

And those are just bills that made it to the House floor. At the committee level, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) recently tried, unsuccessfully, to amend the 2017 legislative branch spending bill to ban trans people who visit the U.S. Capitol or the Library of Congress from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.

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