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Why Progressives Just Woke Up and Killed ENDA

Symbols Matter

Still reeling from the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling and its implications for creeping religious exemptions on civil rights, LGBT groups pulled their support for the bill Tuesday.

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What a difference a Supreme Court decision makes.

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For the last two years, legal scholars, and activists, including this writer, have warned of the campaign to carve out “religious exemptions” to civil rights laws affecting women and LGBT people.

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