The American Equality Bill: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

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The American Equality Bill: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
July 5, 2010 7:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/07/the_american_equality_bill_an_idea_whose_time_has.php


The American Equality Bill is a proposed federal law that will amend all existing federal civil rights laws to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity".

Drafted by Karen Doering, an attorney who has been involved in some of the most important legal LGBT victories and controversies, the bill takes the approach that piecemeal bills for various areas of discrimination -- employment and housing and credit and so on -- will take too long and too many resources to be really successful.

It also recognizes that creating separate bills in separate areas breaks the interests of those against discrimination into small, separate pieces that dilutes the strong force of the coalition necessary to pass any bill on the federal level.