{"id":5949,"date":"2014-12-10T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-announces-plan-for-sweeping-lgbt-civil-rights-legislation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:10:11","slug":"merkley-announces-plan-for-sweeping-lgbt-civil-rights-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-announces-plan-for-sweeping-lgbt-civil-rights-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley anuncia un plan para arrasar con la legislaci\u00f3n de derechos civiles LGBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC\u2014El Senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, anunci\u00f3 hoy su plan para impulsar una amplia legislaci\u00f3n de derechos civiles LGBT antes de una reuni\u00f3n del Centro para el Progreso Estadounidense (CAP, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s). En su discurso de apertura para el evento &quot;Nosotros, la gente: por qu\u00e9 el Congreso debe aprobar una Ley integral contra la discriminaci\u00f3n LGBT&quot;, Merkley expuso su fundamento y plan para las protecciones generales para los estadounidenses LGBT y anunci\u00f3 que trabajar\u00e1 con defensores y socios del Congreso en 2015 para redactar y aprobar dicha legislaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>El evento cont\u00f3 con el lanzamiento de un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/lgbt\/report\/2014\/12\/10\/102804\/we-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">importante informe de la PAC<\/a> que detalla los efectos nocivos que la discriminaci\u00f3n LGBT tiene en las personas y comunidades de todo el pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEn docenas de estados de todo el pa\u00eds, los estadounidenses LGBT carecen de las protecciones b\u00e1sicas contra la discriminaci\u00f3n que muchos de nosotros damos por sentadas\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cHoy en Carolina del Norte, un hombre gay podr\u00eda ser despedido de su trabajo solo por ser gay. En Michigan, a una pareja joven se le podr\u00eda negar la oportunidad de comprar su primera casa solo porque ambas son mujeres. En Pensilvania, a una mujer transg\u00e9nero se le podr\u00eda negar el servicio y ser expulsada de un restaurante solo por ser quien es. Y todo esto ser\u00eda perfectamente legal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLos estadounidenses se sorprender\u00edan al darse cuenta de cu\u00e1nta discriminaci\u00f3n sigue siendo legal en nuestra naci\u00f3n hoy. Es hora de una ley federal integral contra la discriminaci\u00f3n que garantice la igualdad de todos los estadounidenses LGBT\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Citando su trabajo para promover los derechos LGBT en Oreg\u00f3n frente a una fuerte oposici\u00f3n, Merkley traz\u00f3 paralelismos con la lucha por la legislaci\u00f3n federal y pidi\u00f3 la primera legislaci\u00f3n nacional integral contra la discriminaci\u00f3n en cuatro d\u00e9cadas, y la primera que incluir\u00eda completamente a ambos. orientaci\u00f3n sexual e identidad de g\u00e9nero.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>En Oreg\u00f3n, Merkley lider\u00f3 la lucha exitosa como presidente de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes de Oreg\u00f3n para aprobar un proyecto de ley integral contra la discriminaci\u00f3n LGBT en 2007.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCreo firmemente que, al igual que Oreg\u00f3n, Estados Unidos est\u00e1 en camino hacia la igualdad\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cComo dijo Lyndon B. Johnson, ahora es el momento de escribir el pr\u00f3ximo cap\u00edtulo, y de escribirlo en los libros de leyes\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley announced his plan to push broad LGBT civil rights legislation today before a meeting of the Center for American Progress (CAP).&nbsp; In his keynote speech for the event &ldquo;We The People: Why Congress Must Pass a Comprehensive LGBT Non-Discrimination Act,&rdquo; Merkley laid out his rationale and plan for across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-civil-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Announces Plan for Sweeping LGBT Civil Rights Legislation - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-announces-plan-for-sweeping-lgbt-civil-rights-legislation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Announces Plan for Sweeping LGBT Civil Rights Legislation - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley announced his plan to push broad LGBT civil rights legislation today before a meeting of the Center for American Progress (CAP).&nbsp; 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