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11.12.2009 3:29pm EST
From HRC:
The Human Rights Campaign can now confirm the House Education and Labor Committee will vote on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. on legislation to end the widespread practice of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The vote was noticed moments ago.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 3017), introduced by Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), would prohibit employment discrimination, preferential treatment, and retaliation on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by employers with 15 or more employees.Currently, it is legal to discriminate in the workplace based on sexual orientation in 29 states and to discriminate based on gender identity in 38 states. You can view a map of the states online: http://www.hrc.org/documents/Employment_Laws_and_Policies.pdf
Earlier today the Human Rights Campaign announced that as Congressional action looms on the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), it is extending the grassroots “No Excuses” campaign to increase constituent contact with Congress and awareness of the comprehensive website: www.PassENDANow.org.
We launched a national action alert this week to grassroots members and supporters urging them to contact Congress and express their support for a fully-inclusive ENDA. HRC also plans to release details next week on its participation of a national call-in day organized by a coalition of groups urging members and supporters to call the Congressional switchboard in support of ENDA.
Meanwhile, HRC members and supporters have been overwhelmingly responsive this week to the organization’s national call to action on ENDA by sending off more than 62,000 emails or letters to members of Congress and newspapers urging for swift passage.
http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2009/11/breaking-committee-to-hold-vote-on-enda/
Oh if only the HRC really did anything at all.
You gotta LOVE how they sit back and take some bullshit defense of DOMA from the Big House essentially equating us with pedophiles, etc. Yet, they like to take credit for getting something to Congress.
HRC’s role in LGBT Civil Rights should be action and only action. Being the Largest LGBT Rights org in the country, THAT alone should be their top priority…not Tea & Scones with Obama-mama and his cronies.
Hey HRC…you’relosing support through your Gay-ranks quickly via inaction and the acceptance of crumbs of bullshit. How about you actually stand up for your supporters and start demanding. I swear Obama has some shit on Joe Solomnese …why else would Joe pussy-foot around our issues???
everyone should read this article
http://www.hrc.org/documents/Employment_Laws_and_Policies.pdf
oops i meant this one-
http://www.arktimes.com/articles/articleviewer.aspx?ArticleID=2f5d7a3b-c72a-446b-8d20-3823aa79c021
I don’t hold out much hope for the senators from AZ going along with this. McCain and Kyl are a couple of jackasses. McCain is slimy, and Kyle is just plain stoooooopid.
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. We really need this….
For over a decade, I’ve been luke warm at best with HRC. What can you say about an organization too closeted to have an LGBT word or symbol in its organizational name or on its bumper sticker? I actually had an argument with someone in ptown about eight years ago as to whether the HRC was a gay rights organization or a general human rights organization.
Having said that, moving ENDA through Congress is *not* having tea & scones with Obama. It’s hard work, and tedious work. Those of us in states that have an ENDA-like law–like MA and CT–need to understand the importance of this for the rest of the country.
It’s hard to fight for marriage rights if you get fired for coming out.