The nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization has listed U.S. Rep. Andy Harris -- a Baltimore County Republican -- among the nation's "most anti-equality members of Congress."
The Human Rights Campaign said Tuesday that Harris made its new "Hall of Shame" list of 19 legislators nationwide for having "gone out of his way to sponsor nearly every anti-LGBT bill introduced in the House" since he arrived there in 2010.
The list, which also includes high-profile legislators such as Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), comes ahead of the release of the HRC's larger Congressional Scorecard for the 113th Congress, which will be made available here on Thursday.
Harris, the lone Republican in Maryland's delegation, is the only Maryland legislator on the list. The list is entirely comprised of Republicans, with the exception of Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC).
Congressional votes often trend along party lines, with Democrats far more in favor of things like same-sex marriage than their Republican counterparts. But the HRC said the legislators who made its new list were singled out from a larger pool of "anti-LGBT members" because their "legislative actions, votes and anti-LGBT vitriol unfortunately marks them with a modern day scarlet letter."