URGENT Action! Any GLBT folks, family and friends

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From the Human Rights Campaign

Urgent action needed on State Senate Bill 600
to move West Virginia in the direction of Equality for All!

Last week, State Senator Brooks McCabe, (D) Kanawha and the entire West Virginia State Senate courageously passed Senate Bill 600. This bill will amend the current West Virginia Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in our state. This piece of legislation will bar discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons in all of West Virginia.

Now that the bill has passed in the Senate we need you to take action today to help secure the bill's passage in the House.

We need you to email your Delegate and urge them to support Senate Bill 600, so Governor Manchin can sign it into law.

NOTE: Today, right wing groups pressed for a hearing to try and kill the bill. The hearing has been granted for 8:30 am on Tuesday, March 4th in the House Chamber, Charleston, WV. It is urgent that our side show up and express our support for equality. If you can attend, please contact Charlie Rouse at 304-546-6368.
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