“Whether it’s voting to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ or opposing Mike Pence’s ‘Right to Discriminate Bill,’ Baron Hill has demonstrated that he will fight for full LGBT equality in the United States Senate,” said HRC Senior Vice President of Policy and Political Affairs JoDee Winterhof. “The choice is clear. Baron Hill believes that everyone should be able to live free from fear of discrimination and harm, while Congressman Marlin Stutzman and Congressman Todd Young believe in a status quo where LGBT people are second class citizens. The vast majority of fair-minded Hoosiers today believe it's disgrace that LGBT people can still be fired, evicted or denied services because of who they are or whom they love.”

As a candidate Baron Hill has opposed Gov. Mike Pence’s right to discriminate bill and while in Congress, Hill voted against a constitutional amendment that would have banned marriage equality in every state, voted to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and voted for the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act and Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). He has also endorsed the Equality Act, which would extend existing civil rights protections to the LGBT community.

Hill’s likely opponents -- Congressmen Todd Young and Marlin Stutzman -- have refused to support legislation to protect LGBT people from discrimination, oppose marriage equality and even voted to strip LGBT protections from the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

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