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Senate to vote on gay rights bill by Thanksgiving
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...rotect-gay-transgender-employment-rights?lite
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs.../28/for-republicans-a-big-test-on-gay-rights/
Now for people who actually follow equal rights ENDA isnt NEW and IMO i dont actually think it will pass YET. Still too many fearmongers and conspiracy theorists out there but if it does, WOW, look out.
The fall of DOMA was a huge nail in the coffin of discrimination and if SCOTUS doesnt act first it will probably lead to about 30 states having equal rights for gays in 3 years.
If ENDA passes that process will just be further streamlined.
More writing on the wall, equality IS coming.
Back up links:[h=1]Senate to vote on gay rights bill by Thanksgiving[/h]Susan Davis, USA TODAY2:37 p.m. EDT October 28, 2013
[h=2]Federal laws already ban employer discrimination based on on race, color, sex, nationality, religion, age or disability.[/h]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate will take up a gay rights bill before Thanksgiving, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act bans workplace discrimination by employers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Religious organizations and the U.S. military are exempted. ENDA has been introduced in nearly every Congress since 1994, and it came one vote shy of passage in 1996. It has not been given a full Senate vote since.
Federal laws already ban employer discrimination based on on race, color, sex, nationality, religion, age or disability.
"We think this vote is long overdue," said Freedom to Work founder Tico Almeida, a former counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives who helped draft the legislation. The House passed a version of the legislation in 2007, but it died in the Senate and faced a veto threat from then-President George W. Bush.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...rotect-gay-transgender-employment-rights?lite
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs.../28/for-republicans-a-big-test-on-gay-rights/
Now for people who actually follow equal rights ENDA isnt NEW and IMO i dont actually think it will pass YET. Still too many fearmongers and conspiracy theorists out there but if it does, WOW, look out.
The fall of DOMA was a huge nail in the coffin of discrimination and if SCOTUS doesnt act first it will probably lead to about 30 states having equal rights for gays in 3 years.
If ENDA passes that process will just be further streamlined.
More writing on the wall, equality IS coming.