ENDA Religious Arguments Lose Power As Conservatives Attack On Business Not Bible

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/enda-religion-_n_4221178.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

Religion News Service | By Cathy Lynn Grossman
Posted: 11/05/2013 5:04 pm EST


WASHINGTON (RNS) As a law extending workplace protection to gay, bisexual and transgender workers makes its way through the Senate this week, there’s a shift in the political air: Arguments that stand purely on religious grounds are no longer holding the same degree of political sway they once did.

The rhetoric from Republican and conservative opponents of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is moving away from the morality of the bedroom and into the business sphere. More politicians are fighting ENDA as a bad economic move, not as a break with the Bible.

ENDA would “increase frivolous litigation and cost American jobs, especially small business jobs,” Speaker John A. Boehner said in a statement released Monday (Nov. 4), which made clear the Senate bill is dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House.

He echoed the views of Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who said in a statement released Tuesday that “a new federal mandate on businesses based on sexuality” would “burden businesses in an already struggling economy.”

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1. Not surprisingly, Boehner overlooks that major corporations and the public support ENDA.

Yeah, it's fading as a religious issue. It's a jobs issue. Corporations and the voting public want to protect jobs in the private sectors. Heard this morning that the state with the smallest public level of support for ENDA, Mississippi, *favors* ENDA @ 63%. Most states are in the 70 - 75% range. (National polling cited on MSNBC)

On this one the religious argument doesn't fly.