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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, landmark civil rights legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT individuals in the workplace.
The final vote was 64-32, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats. The Republican senators backing the legislation were cosponsors Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), along with Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
ENDA would outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. It is already illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, nationality, religion, age or disability. Twenty-nine states currently have no laws protecting LGBT individuals in the workplace.
ENDA Vote: Senate Votes To Outlaw LGBT Workplace Discrimination
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, landmark civil rights legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT individuals in the workplace.
The final vote was 64-32, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats. The Republican senators backing the legislation were cosponsors Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), along with Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
ENDA would outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. It is already illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, nationality, religion, age or disability. Twenty-nine states currently have no laws protecting LGBT individuals in the workplace.
What took so long?
Of all things that is not the business of an employer, this is right up there at the top.
ENDA Vote: Senate Votes To Outlaw LGBT Workplace Discrimination
enda vote
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, landmark civil rights legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT individuals in the workplace.
The final vote was 64-32, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats. The Republican senators backing the legislation were cosponsors Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), along with Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
ENDA would outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. It is already illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, nationality, religion, age or disability. Twenty-nine states currently have no laws protecting LGBT individuals in the workplace.
What took so long?
Of all things that is not the business of an employer, this is right up there at the top.
This is an example of the sound, responsible governance the people expect of Congress, in this case protecting citizens from workplace discrimination.
Congress spends too much time in session.
I'd be willing to pay them more if they'd promise to only come into work 50 days per year.
How long will it be before the first man sues because he wasn't hired as a wet nurse?
Thursday afternoon, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act passed the Senate by a 64-32 vote, drawing unanimous Democratic support plus votes from 10 Republican backers. The bill, while far from perfect, would go a long way toward protecting gay, lesbian, and trans people against discriminatory workplace practices—which is why a coalition of conservatives and libertarians have begun attacking it. As ENDA skates toward an uncertain future in the House, here are its opponents’ arguments (plus my own rejoinders), ranked from most idiotic to most innovative.
1) Gay people are weird, and trans people are gross.
2) ENDA is unnecessary and unpopular.
Boehner says freedom from discrimination will cost businesses too much. At the very least, he hides his fear of freedom. The stock Conservative bigot does not disguise their ignorance as we'll.
Why on earth would anyone claiming to love America oppose this bill?
Perhaps they love America, but they clearly hate Americans!
What the haters fail to realize, among other things, is the popular don't need protection under law, the unpopular certainly do.
Boehner says freedom from discrimination will cost businesses too much. At the very least, he hides his fear of freedom. The stock Conservative bigot does not disguise their ignorance as we'll.
Why on earth would anyone claiming to love America oppose this bill?
Perhaps they love America, but they clearly hate Americans!
What the haters fail to realize, among other things, is the popular don't need protection under law, the unpopular certainly do.
Those who hate equal freedoms and rights as guaranteed by our Constitution also hate our country. They're the same traitors who side with other countries over their own.
They're welcome to leave but no. They stay here, availing themselves of the very same freedoms and rights they want to take away from other Americans.
Boehner says freedom from discrimination will cost businesses too much. At the very least, he hides his fear of freedom. The stock Conservative bigot does not disguise their ignorance as we'll.
Why on earth would anyone claiming to love America oppose this bill?
Perhaps they love America, but they clearly hate Americans!
What the haters fail to realize, among other things, is the popular don't need protection under law, the unpopular certainly do.
Those who hate equal freedoms and rights as guaranteed by our Constitution also hate our country. They're the same traitors who side with other countries over their own.
They're welcome to leave but no. They stay here, availing themselves of the very same freedoms and rights they want to take away from other Americans.
why don't you go try and make them leave? or you're just billy bad ass on a message board..good frikken grief you and dramatics
damn sure don't talk of banning abortion..those little babies don't need rights like homosexuals...wonder if they did ban it you would leave this country?
