It's hard to know how to feel about Fridays anymore. On the one hand, you've made it through another week of President Trump—or whoever's actually in charge around here—diligently working to single-handedly initiate the collapse of Western civilization. On the other hand, though, the advent of Friday afternoon just means that the president's next insane conspiracy theory-peddling Twitter meltdown is less than 24 hours away. I never imagined that anyone would find a way to ruin Saturday mornings, but I also never thought a professional wrestling character would one day be elected President of the United States. Life comes at you fast.

Contrary to popular belief, however, politics is not all doom and gloom and buffoon these days. Scott Taylor, a first-term Republican congressman out of the great state of Virginia, has introduced his first piece of sponsored legislation, a bill that would amend the Fair Housing Act to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in housing. I am pleased to inform you that there is no sarcastic punchline. Congressman Taylor apparently just wants those in the LGBT community to be able to rent an apartment or buy a house without being turned away because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Here, look for yourself.

Of course, introducing a bill is super-cool and everything, but as Schoolhouse Rock fans everywhere may recall, this means exactly nothing. Of the 10,084 bills introduced during the last Congress, only 326 of those were enacted into law, which makes the odds of any one proposal running the gauntlet... [does math] not great! Plus, since the congressman's Republican colleagues are working around the clock to take healthcare away from poor people—an effort, by the way, that Taylor supports—my guess is that this freshman legislator's bill won't get a whole lot of traction in Paul Ryan's looming Ayn Rand fantasyland.

Still, in the midst of a presidential administration that, to put it delicately, doesn't give a shit about LGBT issues and, frankly, doubts whether discrimination on that basis even exists, it's nice to know that at least some legislators believe that their job responsibilities occasionally entail something other than making life demonstrably worse for their constituents. Imagine that.

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