LGBT groups drop ENDA support following the Hobby Lobby decision

From The Advocate:

Following the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's announcement this morning that it would no longer support the current version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the American Civil Liberties Union announced this afternoon that it would also drop its support for the bill. 

The announcement was also cosigned by Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Transgender Law Center. A joint statement from the groups says that the current version of the bill, allowing religiously affiliated employers the ability to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity, has "long been a source of significant concern to us," but the Supreme Court's decision on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby has made it clear that religious exemption provisions are "no longer tenable."