We Are Not Gay, We Are Human
In an unusually reflective moment a couple weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters that his niece is a lesbian and that he is considering bringing the Employment Non-discrimination Act to a vote this year.
Then, noting that ENDA might not have enough support to pass, he mused: Its hard to comprehend that we havent done a better job. Agreed. The idea of providing basic workplace protections to gay employees was first introduced in Congress in 1974 and today 90% of Americans believe those protections already exist.
But just one week later, during the Senate Judiciary Committees deliberations over immigration reform, Reids colleagues led by Sens. Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein demonstrated why the Senate hasnt done a better job. All three implored the committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, not to offer a provision that would have helped equalize immigration law for LGBT Americans by allowing them to sponsor their partner for residency. It would doom the bill, they said, too many people were against it.
I dont want to blow this bill apart, Sen. Feinstein asserted.
Sen. Durbin offered that in his heart of hearts he believed Sen. Leahy was doing the right thing.
But, he added, I believe this is the wrong moment, that this is the wrong bill." Translation: This is an immigration bill, Mr. Leahy, not a gay bill.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/05/28/op-ed-we-are-not-gay-we-are-human
RKP5637
(67,089 posts)ANY kind needs to be eliminated in ALL areas.
William769
(55,144 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)the Republican's dirty work for them, in advance. This Party has major explaining to do. Those three must be replaced, a vote for them is a vote for hate. DiFi built her career on the blood and bones of Milk and Moscone, and this is who she really is, a seething bigoted old sack of money and excrement.
I hold them in contempt, the entire Senate who did this. Durbin is a Republican to me. Schumer, he's worse.
William769
(55,144 posts)No one can be that clueless. This issue is not going away anytime soon. They need to lead or get the hell out of the way & let someone with balls who will stand up to the people wearing the invisible white hood & robes.