Posted on 11/06/2013 6:21:30 PM PST by yongin
The cloture vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) Monday drew the support of seven GOP senators. Eight other Republicans did not vote.
Ken Cuccinelli II (Steve Helber / Associated Press)
It is remarkable that so few Republicans would agree with the overwhelming number of Americans who disapprove of workplace discrimination. In September, a poll showed 68 percent of voters supported a law like ENDA. Among Republicans, 56 did. Those numbers go to 88/84 percent approval for this statement: “Companies should hire and fire based solely on a person’s qualifications not quotas — gay and transgender employees should have an equal opportunity to everyone else.” A June poll conducted by Huffington Post and YouGov found 65 percent thought such discrimination was already illegal.
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Maybe because it includes provisions requiring an employer to accommodate cross-dressers?
Jennifer Rubin trashed Ken Cucinelli all year long.
Now she demands that conservatives bent over for the homosexual agenda.
Because she's a liberal Democrat. She backed Kerry in 2004. So why does she get a column called "Right Turn"? One. Party. Rule.
Rubin is nothing more than the press secretaray of the GOPe.
Speaking of the GOPe, where the hell was Ed Gillespe in the VA Governor race? He was active in helping Bob McDonnell in 2009 and Romney in 2012. Was he too busy raising money for Rove’s Fake Conservative Victory Project?
Where there are “winners” there are losers.
Another plant in our company just went through this. They were fortunate that the freak show accepted its own private facilities because it could have sued for not being allowed to use the women's facilities. Fortunately, it did not. Just as fortunately, the company found just cause to discharge it over another matter.
Actually I think employers should be able to discriminate against anyone they want.
I think you should be able to hire who you want for whatever reason you want.
I think that it would be foolish for anyone to not hire a well qualified applicant because of his or her race or gender but I think that it is their right to do so. The law however says otherwise.
I think that the right to associate with who you want is a basic right. Employing a person is an association; if you work with someone 5 days a week that becomes a fairly intimate relationship. If you are uncomfortable with that person it will tend to take the joy out of your work and a substantial part of your life.
There is some justification for banning discrimination over things like race and gender. These are things that you can’t change (at least not easily) and that are usually pretty obvious.
Homosexuality on the other hand is something that DOES NOT HAVE TO BE OBVIOUS! I don’t want the world to know what my wife and I do in the privacy of our bedroom; and I don’t want to know what other couples do. Far too many homosexuals insist that we know what they do, and approve of it. Anything less is in their minds “discrimination” or “bigotry”.
On another front though one of the results of these types of laws is that they limit hiring of the now “protected” class. Why? What happens if an employer hires someone who doesn’t work out, let’s say a black male. He tries to fire the guy and the employee screams “discrimination!” Now the employer is faced with either a slacker until he decides to quit or major legal battles for many thousands of dollars. Is he more or less likely to hire more people from this “protected” class in the future?
Rubin is a hack. She gets trashed by 99% of commenters on her articles because of how useless and poisonous she is.
Interesting how now populism is the big thing. When most Americans felt sodomy should be illegal, but the courts upheld it, people like Rube-in decried ‘majoritarianism’ or ‘tyranny of the majorty’. Now she lauds it as a step forward.
Jennifer, I have something that counts a damn sight more than the moronic population that elected Obama twice. It’s called the CONSTITUTION, and nowhere is the government given any such power to interfere with the hiring or firing of employees in private contracts.
How bout a bill that says businesses can’t discriminate against gun owners?
We’ll see how many democrats vote “For Discrimination”.
And in saying that, you stand with the Founders, who would find the idea of government forcing business’ to retain homosexuals whom they don’t wish to have the labor of, a very odd concept.
Today Klinger from MASH would have been a Platoon Lt.
Businesses should hire and fire who they want when they want for whatever reason the employment contract allows.
What’s missed in all this is that the secret of a happy life has been known and demonstrated for millenia. Stick close to the scriptural model , whether or not you accept the authority of the scriptures, and you’ll have 90% success rate. The society is losing the ability to transmit these truths simply and clearly from generation to generation, a task at which it was quite good until 4 or 5 decades ago. Institutionalizing experimental life styles and mores doesn’t bear scrutiny in any sphere and flies in the face of common sense. That inability to withstand analysis leaves the proponents only censorship of the criticism as a defense.This is Brook Farm on a nationwide scale, destined for collapse, but confusing, corrupting and expensive.
I think its disgusting how the dems an gop-e use the mentally ill as political props.
All these lib journalists and professors who are so “anti-discrimination” always seem to end up with newsrooms and college departments that are 100% liberal. I would like to ask Jennifer that if a Republican must be pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control, pro-socialized medicine, and pro-big government, why shouldn’t they just become Democrats? I’d like to ask her: What, in your view, does - or should - distinguish a Republican from a Democrat?
I’d like to ask Jennifer: should liberal musicians have the right to refuse performing at conservative or Republican events? As a matter of fact, they should, and they have in fact even requested that Republicans not play their music at Republican events.
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