Florida just tried, but failed, to protect LGBT people against discrimination
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/02/12/florida-just-tried-but-failed-to-protect-lgbt-people-against-discrimination/
Pink News/By Joseph Patrick McCormick 02/12/2016
"The US state of Florida has tried, but failed, to outlaw anti-LGBT discrimination.
LGBT people in 30 states in the US still face discrimination at work or otherwise, because of a lack of discrimination protections in law."
Florida will probably have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. The same is true of most of the states of the old Confederacy. Basically, federal action will ultimately be necessary - just like federal courts ultimately had to overturn anti-racial-miscegenation bans and same-sex marriage bans in these states.
The problem is that with right-wing control of Congress, bible-thumpers and bigots stand in the way of effective federal action at present.
Florida fails at just about everything, so this isn't very surprising...