GOP senators asking religious groups to help craft Equality Act compromise, sources say

The offices of three Republican senators met with conservative religious groups late last month to ask for their help in crafting a bill similar to the controversial Equality Act, but one that includes protections for religious groups, sources familiar with the meeting told Fox News.

One source familiar with the approximately 2-hour meeting said that groups were asked to come up with "guiding principles" for a bill that would include the discrimination protections of the Equality Act while including guardrails to protect religious groups. Another source told Fox that there are weekly working groups underway ahead of another meeting with the senators’ offices later this month, and the plan is to come up with principles that most can agree upon.