Biden: Discrimination Against LGBT Indefensible

Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals is indefensible as a cultural norm, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden told a gathering of business executives Thursday. Biden led a roundtable discussion with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) about equality in the workplace for LGBT employees on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He criticized countries without LGBT rights for hiding behind a “this is our culture” slogan, saying...

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