Did You Know It's Legal In Most States To Discriminate Against LGBT People?

[JI7]

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments on same-sex marriage, which is now legal in about three dozen states.

But it's also legal in most states to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — LGBT — people in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodation.

"Most states have no nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people," says David Stacy, government affairs director for the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group. "With limited or no federal protections, an LGBT person can get legally married in most states, but then be evicted from an apartment and denied a home loan."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/28/402774189/activists-urge-states-to-protect-the-civil-rights-of-lgbt-people

[MaggieD]

1. Sadly, yes I do

We have some eff'ed up states in this country.

[steve2470]

2. kick and rec! nt

[Bonx]

3. It's the Christian way

[beam me up scottie]

4. k&r

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Yes.

But if we all had economic equality, all the anti-GLBT discrimination would just melt away.

[irisblue]

6. I live in Ohio, they can discriminate

housing, jobs, marriage....yes they can

[Recursion]

7. Sadly nondiscrimination acts are the exception rather than the rule

And even more sadly it's going to have to be the states that do this in the near future, because nothing remotely like that is coming out of this Congress.

[stillwaiting]

8. Christian "freedom" doesn't work out too well for some other groups. nt

[Jim Lane]

9. Very important point, too often overlooked

Many DU posts focus on the question of allowing religious exemptions to nondiscrimination laws. It's logically prior to ask whether there's an applicable nondiscrimination law in the first place. People asserting religious grounds for discrimination would be a very small number compared to those who don't need to assert any grounds because their conduct is not illegal.

[treestar]

10. Add it in to the anti-discrimination laws as a category

That would mean getting a Congress that would do that. And here on DU, we only worry about the Presidency.