Pennsylvania HB 2103: It represents not fairness, but force—not clarity, but confusion—not balance, but overreach, the Senate must reject it;

Greg Maresca ——Bio and Archives--May 18, 2026

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Every legislative session has its defining moment, the vote that reveals not just what politicians believe, but how far they are willing to go to impose it.

Recently, that moment arrived in the closest of votes 101 to 100, as the Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 2103, a bill that has yet to be named but began as a modest proposal and ended as a sweeping rewrite of state anti-discrimination law after the last-minute insertion of language from the stalled “Fairness Act.”

Naming legislation often is exactly the opposite of what the bill does. Remember the Affordable Care Act? Whose health insurance hasn’t skyrocketed since then?

The public never received a transparent debate on the dubious Fairness Act, which failed to advance on its own merits.

Rather, its text was transplanted into HB 2103 in a........

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