Suit Seeks To Have Ex-Gays Protected By DC Human Rights Act

The group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) announced yesterday that it had filed a lawsuit in the D.C. Superior Court seeking to require the Washington D.C. Office of Human Rights to include former homosexuals as a group that is protected by the D.C. Human Rights Act. The law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, sexual preference, gender identity and gender expression. PFOX claims that former homosexuals and their friends have been fired from their jobs, ridiculed, assaulted, and intimidated, and thus should be entitled to the same legal protections as gays.