Legislation banning discrimination against LGBT workers stalls in Republican-controlled House.

[Cali_Democrat]

Shocking!!



No, Congress Still Isn't Any Closer To Passing A Bill To Fight LGBT Discrimination
Posted: 03/13/2014 2:24 pm EDT

Months after overwhelmingly passing in the Senate, a bill that would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers remains no closer to becoming law.

Although most Americans don't realize it, firing or even harassing someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is legal in more than half of the United States.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act cleared the Senate in November, with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats to vote for the bill. But Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who opposes the law, has refused to give it a vote in the House. His spokesman has cited concerns about increased litigation and costs to small businesses -- an outcome that is highly unlikely, based on a recent Government Accountability Office analysis.

President Barack Obama has repeatedly called on the House to pass the bill, even penning a HuffPost op-ed that compares LGBT discrimination to racial or religious discrimination.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/lgbt-discrimination-_n_4958512.html

[Bluenorthwest]

1. ENDA has been introduced and then blocked in every Congres but one

since 1994. Similar bills have been rejected regularly by the Congress since 1974.
The first version was called the Equality Act and it was introduced by House Members Bella Abzug and Ed Koch on the 5th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Both Bella and Ed have passed on and that bill is still stalled in the Congress.
I loved Bella. That's just a side note. This was the best thing Ed ever did, but just one of the great things Bella did. I tip my hat.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. In other news, bear shits in woods. N.T.

[JaneyVee]

3. The party of "freedom" & "liberty" sure love oppression.