{"id":1031,"date":"2019-08-23T19:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T23:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2021-01-17T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T21:25:13","slug":"equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/equality-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/support-the-equality-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Equlity-Act-Petition-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Equlity Act Petition\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Support the Equality Act!<\/h2>\n<p>While we have so much to celebrate, we also have a great distance to go before everyone in this country is truly treated equally. In excellent recent news, the House has passed the <strong>Equality Act<\/strong>, which would protect <em>LGBTQ<\/em> people from <strong>discrimination<\/strong> in their <em>places of work, homes, schools, and other public accommodations<\/em>. The next step is that the bill will go before the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no information yet as to when the <strong>Equality Act<\/strong> will go before the Senate for a vote, we do know this: <em><strong>Politicians need votes to stay in office. Votes come from the people. Pressure from massive amounts of people is a major way to push politicians towards positive change. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve created this petition to urge the Senate to support the Equality Act.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our country\u2019s lack of protection for its own citizens ensures that <strong>LGBTQ<\/strong> people must live in fear that their lives could be turned upside down by an employer or landlord who is <strong>homophobic<\/strong> or <strong>transphobic<\/strong>. The fact that, legally, some people are completely at the mercy of the hatred and bigotry of others is disgusting and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s show our pride by demanding that, on a national level, our laws truly treat all of our citizens equally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/support-the-equality-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here to Sign the Equality Act Petition!<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support the Equality Act! While we have so much to celebrate, we also have a great distance to go before\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[62,36,61],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lgbtq","tag-equality","tag-lgbtq","tag-petition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddstratton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}