Tag Archives: ENDA

Family Research Council Launches Last Minute Attack On ENDA

The Family Research Council has launched an all-out campaign against the coming ENDA vote, assembling a cavalcade of haters for an anti-gay DVD they’re pitching to their followers for $14.99. Here’s the trailer.

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Roll Call Publishes Anti-ENDA Column By Leader Of Anti-Gay Hate Group

Bilerico’s Jillian Weiss alerts us that Roll Call, the respected DC journal of Capitol Hill goings-on, has published a vile anti-ENDA column by Andrea Lafferty of the SPLC-certified hate group, the Traditional Values Coalition. Rather than mentioning that ENDA would protect millions of gays and lesbians from employment discrimination, Lafferty focuses on the haters’ favorite target, trans folk. In 2008, …

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Barney Frank: ENDA Committee Vote Coming In Next Two Weeks

This weekend Barney Frank told attendees at a Victory Fund event that ENDA will be passed out of committee and submitted for a full House vote within the next two weeks. Frank, speaking to Metro Weekly after his appearance at the Victory Fund’s annual Champagne Brunch, said the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) – currently in the House Education and Labor …

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Today In Lying Bigots: ENDA Will Cause Sexual Assaults On Disabled Veterans

Right Wing Watch points us a poorly attended panel on the “gay agenda” that took place at the Freedom Federation’s Awakenings Conference. In the clip below, liars Matt Barber (Liberty Counsel) and Andrea Lafferty (Traditional Values Coalition) explain to their meager audience that the passage of ENDA will unleash who-knows-how-many amputee stump lovers, pedophiles, and horse fuckers upon the nation’s …

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16 Senate Dems Uncommitted On ENDA

The long overdue vote on ENDA does appear to be coming, but support is lacking in the Senate where 16 Democrats have not signed on as co-sponsors. DC Agenda reports: As of this week, there were 45 Senate co-sponsors of ENDA, along with chief sponsor Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), bringing the total committed votes to 46. Of the 46, 42 …

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PhoboQuotable – Andrea Lafferty

“Every state will be forced to make cross-dressers, drag queens, transsexuals, and she-males (male-female hybrids) into protected classes. Therefore, every school district in America will be forbidden by law to reassign any she-male teacher because this would be considered ‘discrimination.’ Thus, children will be trapped in classes taught by men who dress as women, and students will be indoctrinated to …

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Barney Frank On DADT & ENDA: Gays Need To Lobby Like The NRA

In an interview with Karen Ocamb, yesterday Rep. Barney Frank dismissed activism devices like marches and petitions, saying that if the LGBT community wants progress on DADT and ENDA, they need to lobby like the NRA – by calling their representatives personally and often. “I’ve been begging people for years to lobby their senators. And I have very little sympathy …

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PhoboQuotable – Lou Sheldon

“In the next few weeks, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and their homosexual and transgender allies will attempt to ram through the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). What you may not know is that ENDA normalizes and provides special federal protection for 30+ bizarre sexual orientations listed by the American Psychiatric Association – the so-called ‘Dirty 30.’ These 30+ fetishes include …

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Community Service For ENDA 4

Yesterday the four GetEQUAL activists who staged a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s DC office were sentenced to community service and ordered to stay away from Rep. Pelosi. Metro Weekly reports: After the morning arraignment, about an hour passed before a status hearing where they faced D.C. Superior Court Judge Harold Cushenberry, who said he would drop the charges against the …

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Anti-Gay Family Research Council Sees CA$H In Fight Against ENDA

The Family Research Council has launched a fund-raising drive based on their claim that all good Christians will be forced…FORCED!…to hire men in dresses if ENDA passes. Do you think it’s right for liberals running the government to … * Force a Christian bookstore to hire a man . . . who dresses in women’s clothing?* Force your child’s religious …

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GetEQUAL Activists To Be Arraigned Over ENDA Sit-In At Nancy Pelosi’s Office

Four activists from GetEQUAL will be arraigned today for their March 18th ENDA protest at Nancy Pelosi’s office. Via press release: Activists will gather outside the District of Columbia Superior Courthouse today in solidarity with four women arrested during a sit-in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Washington office two weeks ago. On March 18, led by co-founders Robin McGehee and Kip …

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World Net Daily Lies About ENDA

The nation’s most widely read conservative/Christian site issued yet another of its classic lies today, claiming in a headline that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act requires employers to hire gays. The site makes no substantiation of the claim in their story. Now that the health-care fight has proven House Democrats can muscle through legislation without a drop of bipartisan support, plans …

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Rep. Jared Polis: ENDA Will Pass In The U.S. House In The Next Few Weeks

Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) tells Karen Ocamb that he believes ENDA will pass in the U.S. House in the next few weeks. We have the votes to pass ENDA in the House and we hope to bring it before the committee I serve on – the Education Labor Committee – within the month – by the end of April. And …

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HomoQuotable – Cleve Jones

“I know your values, Madame Speaker, and I know that you strongly support ENDA. Now I want these young people to know what is in your heart. With the knowledge that health care reform has been achieved and that enough votes now exist in the House today to pass ENDA, will you work with Rep. George Miller, Chair of the …

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GetEQUAL To Sit-In At Pelosi’s Offices

Members of new activist group GetEQUAL is preparing to sit-in today at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s offices in San Francisco and DC. Follow on Twitter at #GetENDA and #GetEqual.

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BLOG SWARM: Contact Nancy Pelosi And Demand ENDA’s Passage

LGBT bloggers and allies are today coordinating a national blog swarm, asking readers to contact their members of Congress and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to demand the passage of ENDA. The Bilerico Project’s Dr. Jillian Weiss is leading today’s charge. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, first introduced in 1994, would prohibit job discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. But …

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Trans Panic! At The Disco

Good As You points out the latest bit of transphobery from the Tradition Values Coalition. President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are quietly rushing through legislation (H.R. 3017 & S. 1584) that would actually bring cross-dressing teachers into your child’s classroom. Under the so-called, Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), your children will be trapped in classes taught by drag queens and …

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Virginia To Delete LGBT Employment Protections From State Universities

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s campaign to make sure that every LGBT person can be fired for being gay is expanding to his state’s public universities. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has asked the state’s public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school Thursday …

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Help Send Someone To ENDA Lobby Day

The Bilerico Project and PFLAG are teaming up to send people who’ve been fired for being gay to an important ENDA Lobby Day in Washington DC on March 16th. Via Dr. Jillian T. Weiss at Bilerico: It is particularly important to ENDA that people attend from the eight states in which Senators are on the fence. If you live in …

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Lying Christian Leader Tony Perkins Lies More Lies In Lying Letter Filled With Lies

From a four-page letter (PDF) from the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins to their members…. Imagine… *The government prosecuting a small business owner — perhaps a Christian bookstore — for declining to hire an open-homosexual or cross-dresser. *Your employer telling you to remove the Bible from your desk because it is offensive to the homosexual or cross-dresser he was forced …

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