ENDA (Employee Nondiscrimination Act) has been introduced in every Congress save one since 1994 and has never been passed by the Congress. In addition, earlier bills to accomplish the same thing have been rejected by the Untied States Congress regularly since May 14 1974, the 5th Anniversary of Stonewall, when Representatives Ed Koch and Bela Abzug introduced the Equality Act.
The current bill was passed by the Senate in 2013 in part due to efforts of Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, but of course has not passed the House of Representatives.
So basically 40 years of trying to pass this law, while even on DU straight folks lecture us that our rights just don't matter because only jobs matter. 'You can't eat your rights' one asshat said to me 'it's about jobs'. Oblivious to the facts of the matter, so many straight people on DU keep insisting that LGBT rights have nothing all all to do with economic justice and income equality. Apparently discrimination in employment toward LGBT people does not create any income inequality or systemic economic abuse, apparently such things only matter if they impact the incomes of straight white men....
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