The LGBTQ community and major employers say a bill passed by the Texas Senate is a license to discriminate, giving professionals the right to turn away people based on religious beliefs. Amazon, Dell, Apple and Facebook urged Texas to drop the bill.
The Supreme Court has become the latest flash point for LGBTQ politics, agreeing to hear a case about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and workplace discrimination. But at the local level, Texas is the current showdown state for LGBTQ rights.
Republican State Senator Charles Perry, a sponsor of Senate Bill 17, said his concern is not companies that provide Texas with the"almighty dollar." Back in 2017 that bill, which only permitted people to use bathrooms based upon the sex on their birth certificates,was estimated to costNorth Carolina $3.76 billion. PayPal was one of the many businesses to change its plans within North Carolina, opting not to build a facility that would have generated an estimated $2.66 billion for North Carolina's economy. In March of 2017, the bill was repealed.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, the most prominent openly gay corporate official in America, described laws like Indiana's as"very dangerous" in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed piece. After signing the bill, Gov. Pence had the legislation rewritten to make clear in the language that business owners will not be allowed to discriminate when providing services. In a post-mortem analysis of the battle, published in 2018, the Indianapolis Star noted that RFRA caused the city to lose up to 12 conventions and $60 million in business.
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