70% of voters support the Equality Act even as Senate Republicans try to stop it

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A new poll found that 70 percent of voters support the Equality Act, the landmark legislation that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights legislation.

In a poll conducted by HRC and Hart Research Associates, 1007 voters were read a long description of the bill and 41 percent said that they strongly support the bill and just 30 percent oppose it.

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The bill is even popular when broken down to its components. One part of the bill expands the definition of a “public accommodation” in federal law so that existing protected categories – race, religion, sex, etc. – get further legal protections against discrimination in businesses and federal programs. Eighty-four percent of respondents supported that.

The bill also protects against discrimination based on perceived sexual orientation, and 79 percent of people supported that.

The core of the bill – adding sexual orientation and gender identity to federal civil rights law – got 77 percent support.

Even the part of the bill that says…

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