Tip of the tolerance hat to Mark Kirk (R-IL) for his decision last week to become the first Republican U.S. senator to co-sponsor the Equality Act, which supports 66-Across.
The First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), a bill sponsored in the Senate by Mike Lee (R-UT), is against 66-Across. FADA is, to quote an editorial that ran in the Connecticut Law Tribune on Monday, “another dangerous effort by GOP lawmakers and social conservative groups to deal with the supposed threat to their religious liberty posed by the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.”
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