Evangelicals want LGBT people excluded from anti-lynching bill.

Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel wants to amend the anti-lynching bill. (Image from PinkNews)

Evangelical activists are pressing Republican lawmakers to strip protections for LGBT+ people from an anti-lynching bill.

The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act cleared the US Senate on December 20 in a rare unanimous vote.

The bill would allow lynchings—bias-motivated…