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Equality report card for PA

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If Pennsylvania were a pimpled-faced middle-schooler, it would probably wouldn’t bring home its latest report card to hang on the fridge.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has just released its State Equality Index, in which Pennsylvania joins 28 other states in the shameful category of “High Priority to Achieve Basic Equality.” In general terms, this ranking describes states that implicitly or explicitly “undermine LGBT equality,” from criminalizing sodomy to condoning religious-based persecution.

Pennsylvania is the only state in north of Virginia in this class.

Housing laws, second parent adoption, joint adoption, employment laws, marriage equality, marriage prohibitions, hate crimes laws, public accommodations laws, anti-bullying laws, school laws — HRC’s law-by-law breakdown shows that LGBT individuals aren’t supported by the state on any of these issues.

The report card shows that Pennsylvania hasn’t introduced as much discriminatory legislation as some of the other 28 states in the past year. The only red-flag “bad bills” against the state are “The State Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” “HIV/AIDS Criminalization Laws,” and “Transgender Exceptions in State Medicaid.” Still, there are dozens of progressive equality bills that have yet to be discussed in Harrisburg.