amend existing civil rights laws, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
In addition to employment and housing, it would ban such discrimination in other aspects of life including education, credit, jury service, federal funding, housing, and public accommodations.
It would also make clear that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1994 does not provide legal cover for anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
It is the successor to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a narrower piece of legislation that never passed both houses of Congress in the same session.The Supreme Court’s decision last year in Bostock v.