New York is having primary Senatorial Debates (monday/tues).    [Try to get the question in your state's debates as well.]

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In subject put: Questions on Civil Rights for Senate Debate:

1. Senator Gillibrand has been up front in supporting the inclusion of “sexual orientation and gender identity” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Would you support a bill to place “sexual orienta…tion and gender identity” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which currently protects people from discrimination based on their “race, color, sex, national origin, or religion.” And if so, would you be an original sponsor of such a bill in 2011?

Or the longer version:

2. Senator Gillibrand has been up front in supporting the inclusion of “sexual orientation and gender identity” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Would you support a bill to place “sexual orientation and gender identity” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which currently protects people from discrimination based on their “race, color, sex, national origin, or religion”" in vast areas of life including “employment, housing, access to credit, gov’t facilities, private places open to the public, and all federally funded programs”. And if so, would you be an original sponsor of such a bill in 2011?