“In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”
What PolitiFact found
There is no federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in public accommodations. 28 states have some protections at the state level.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 20 June 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 June 2023. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/10/remarks-by-president…
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