The Justice Department argued the 1964 Civil Rights Act was not intended to ban discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender people.
Four years ago the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in a ruling that helped advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in America.
The U.S. Ambassador, Samantha Power, accused Moscow of trying to export to the U.N. its domestic hostility to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.