Justice Dept. seeks action vs. gay discrimination

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_civil_rights_gays

Justice Dept. seeks action vs. gay discrimination
AP


WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's point man on civil rights said Wednesday he will seek to fight discrimination against gays, an area in which the Justice Department has had only a small role in the past.

Tom Perez, the assistant attorney general in charge of the department's Civil Rights Division, said pending legislation in Congress will allow the department to attack discrimination against lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender people, a group often referred to by the acronym LGBT.

That would be new territory for the division that has historically gone after discrimination based on race, gender or religion. It would also be a major shift from the division's work during the Bush administration, which opposed expansion of the federal hate crimes law to prosecute those who attack gays.

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1. well, that's a start I guess

maybe that dinner at the HRC gave people a chance to bend some ears in the WH and get the Justice Dept to move

[MindandSoul]

2. Get on with it, already!

It's certainly not too soon!
The gay rights issues, all of them, need to be handled now, not in two or three years!