Tag Archives: employment

INDIANA: House Committee Approves Bill To Legalize Anti-Gay Employment Discrimination By State Contractors

Indiana GOP House Rep. Eric Turner, whose marriage ban failed* last week, now wants to make it legal for state contractors to discriminate against LGBT employees. His bill Via the Indianapolis Star: Some state contractors would be allowed to discriminate against employees based on religion under a provision state lawmakers slipped into an unrelated bill during a House committee meeting …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte Mayor Asks Fired Grocery Worker For His Resume

Drew Swope, the North Carolina grocery store worker who was fired this weekend after GOP Gov. Pat McCrory tattled on him for making a rude comment, has been asked for his resume by Democratic Charlotte Mayor Pat Cannon. From Swope’s Facebook page: “The mayor of Charlotte, Pat Cannon, just called me and asked me to send him my resume and …

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Obama Issues Executive Order Raising Minimum Wage For Federal Workers

Via the Associated Press: Obama is speaking at a White House event where he’ll sign an executive order increasing the minimum hourly wage for federal contractors from $7.25 to $10.10. He first announced the measure during his State of the Union address. Because the measure applies only to new contracts, the White House says it will affect just a few …

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UTAH: 13 LGBT Activists Arrested

Via Reuters: Thirteen Utah gay rights activists were arrested on Monday at the state Capitol after a sit-in to demand lawmakers hear a bill barring housing and job discrimination based on sexual orientation, authorities said. About 20 activists, buoyed by a court ruling that briefly legalized same-sex marriage in the conservative state, had blocked access to part of the Capitol. …

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UTAH: Activists Blockade Senate Offices Over Anti-Discrimination Bill

Utah Senate Bill 100 would outlaw housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Utah Senate has refused to hear the bill. RELATED: Local Fox News reporter Ben Winslow has been our most reliable source since the Utah marriage story exploded into the news in December.

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IDAHO: Police Arrest 43 LGBT Activists For Occupying State Senate Entrance

Via the Associated Press: Police have arrested dozens of gay rights activists, saying their protest blocked entrances to the Idaho Senate chambers for more than two hours. Idaho State Police say they took 43 people into custody Monday after the demonstrators stood shoulder to shoulder and prevented lawmakers from getting past. Former state Sen. Nicole LeFavour, the Idaho Legislature’s first …

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HomoQuotable – Michelangelo Signorile

“The Duck Dynasty controversy has become so ugly so fast. It’s time to just call it what it is. Religious zealots like Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson are using the Bible to defame a group of people and excuse horrible actions against that group in the name of their Bible, refusing responsibility for the hate their words condone and inspire. …

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NEW YORK CITY: Teacher Claims Lesbian Boss Fired Him For Being Straight

An Upper East Side private school has been sued by a former gym teacher who claims that his lesbian boss fired him because she disapproved of his “traditional family status.” Gregory Kenney, 50, taught gym at the Trinity School on W. 91st St. for 16 years before he was let go in June 2012. Kenney, who lives with his wife …

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PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Tom Corbett Backs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Bill

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who so far had been no friend to the gay community, has backed a bill that would protect LGBT residents from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. Corbett, who has previously staked out conservative positions on social issues, told The Inquirer that he was “coming out in support” of the bill after learning that federal …

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Apple CEO: We Must Pass ENDA

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is reportedly gay but has not publicly come out, endorsed the passage of ENDA during a speech at Auburn University.

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Shreveport Passes LGBT Protections

Via Equality Louisiana: Today, the Shreveport City Council passed the Shreveport Fairness Ordinance with a vote of 6-1. In Louisiana, and 29 other states, there are no state or federal protections in place to prevent someone from being fired, evicted or denied service just because of who they are or who they love. The Shreveport Fairness Ordinance prevents discrimination against …

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Unemployment Hits Five-Year Low

Via the New York Times: The jobs picture brightened in November as hiring in the United States was stronger than expected and the unemployment rate fell to a five-year low, data that increases the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will begin easing its stimulus efforts sooner, rather than later. In November, the jobless rate dropped to 7 percent. Economists surveyed …

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Rick Scarborough: ENDA Will Force Christians To Deny Their Christianity

“If the bill becomes law, Christians will be forced to violate their conscience or violate ENDA. While ENDA supposedly contains an exemption for churches and other religious institutions, there is none for individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs. This law is about forcing Bible-believing Christians to deny their faith rather than inconvenience cross-dressing, gender-confused adults.  How do you know if …

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Boehner: ENDA Is Unneccesary

“I am opposed to discrimination of any kind in the work place and any place else. But I think this legislation that I’ve dealt with as chairman of the Educational Workforce Committee long before I was back into leadership, is unnecessary and would provide a basis for frivolous lawsuits. People are already protected in the work place. So I am, …

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FRC Prays Against ENDA

The Family Research Council is asking God to step in and thwart the passage of ENDA in the House. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act – The misnamed bill will impose open homosexuality and transgenderism upon all U.S. private and public workplaces just as the repeal of DADT did the U.S. Military. ENDA has already passed the U.S. Senate May God give …

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Freep This ENDA Poll

Lower right of the main page. (Via JMG reader AJ)

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Matt Barber Has The ENDA Sadz

“The religious liberty death spiral continues. Writing in the Huffington Post, popular homosexual radio personality Michelangelo Signorile confessed that, of any potential ENDA legislation that might reach President Obama’s desk for his pledged signature, ‘none should include any religious exemptions’ whatsoever. If Signorile and other ‘LGBT’ activists get their way, this would mean that churches, mosques, synagogues, religious schools, Bible …

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Fred Karger On Mormons & ENDA

“This would not have happened without the blessing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). The Mormon Church got a big black eye five years ago for all it did to pass Proposition 8 in California, which wrote discrimination into the state Constitution and took away gay marriage in the nation’s largest state. So in …

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Senate Mormons Helped Win ENDA

The New York Times reports that ENDA passed yesterday not just with the help of the top Mormons in the Senate such as Majority Leader Harry Reid, but with the de facto blessing (or at least, without the objections) of the church itself. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who at 79 is one of the Senate’s longest-serving members, became the …

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