“When I think back to the early years of working on ENDA, I suspect we would have been very happy to get anything passed because at that time there were zero federal laws and there were only nine states that offered any protections,” she said. “We as LGBT people and we as a country are in a very different place now.” Carey and other activists said their decision was prompted in part by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. The high court ruled that some businesses can, because of their owners’ religious beliefs, choose not to comply with the federal health care law’s requirement that contraception coverage be provided to workers at no extra charge. That ruling did not address discrimination in workplace hiring and firing, but many gay rights activists have cited the case as a reason to be more aggressive in opposing religious exemptions that might disadvantage LGBT people. The Human Rights Campaign — the largest national gay-rights group — is virtually alone among its major counterparts in maintaining its support for the stalled non-discrimination act, saying it would benefit millions of people. lgbtqnation/2014/07/obama-faces-pressure-over-religious-exemption-in-anti-bias-order/
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