A federal judge in Alabama has laid out the playbook for how discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing could fall afoul of federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of "sex." District Judge William M. Acker, Jr. ultimately rejected the discrimination complaint made by James Earl Thomas against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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