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With the help of dedicated volunteers and community activists, the ACLU of Pennsylvania works to raise awareness about the importance of preserving the individual rights and liberties that are guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States and Pennsylvania.

There are many ways that you can take action to defend civil liberties in Pennsylvania:

• Join the ACLU
• Make a donation to the ACLU Foundation
• Join our email list
• Get involved with your local chapter
• Volunteer or intern in one of our offices
• Join the Legislative Action Network
• Write a letter to the editor
• Contact your elected representatives

Current Campaigns

Save the Lancaster County Human Relations Commission

Members of the Lancaster County Commission are seeking to eliminate the Lancaster County Human Relations Commission (HRC), the agency that enforces the county's anti-discrimination ordinance. They say it's a cost cutting move. We can't put a price tag on protecting the civil rights of Lancaster County residents. Find out what you can do to save the Lancaster County HRC.

HB 300

It's legal to fire people in Pennsylvania because they're gay. It's time for that to end.

Many Pennsylvanians mistakenly think it's already illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. They're wrong. Only 15 municipalities in the commonwealth have anti-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation-leaving almost 75% of LGBT Pennsylvanians without protection from discrimination.

House Bill 300 would end discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Pennsylvania. It would amend the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, the commonwealth's civil rights law, to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity or expression" as protected classes. Find out what you can do to support HB 300 and end legal discrimination in Pennsylvania.