{"id":1142,"date":"2014-03-06T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2014-03-06T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T22:30:13","slug":"american-support-for-lgbt-employment-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/03\/american-support-for-lgbt-employment-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"American Support for LGBT Employment Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The U.S. Senate\u2019s passage last year of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill to ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, brought national attention to the issue of job protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans. 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