ENDA - Work place is the wrong place for sexual politics

email: AFA | 9/3/2009 | Staff

[IbJensen]

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (ENDA) is a proposed federal law which would have the effect, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), of "making it illegal to fire, refuse to hire or refuse to promote employees simply based on a person's sexual orientation or gender identity."

ENDA (H.R. 2981 - H.R. 3017 - S. 1584) has been changed from the "gay-only" version the House passed in 2007 to include language banning job discrimination based on "gender identity" as well as sexual orientation - complete with special protections for the transgendered. It would mean your child's teacher, if he were a male but "felt" like a female, could go into the women's bathroom.

ENDA is aimed at providing heightened protections for a particular sexual behavior - homosexuality. It would grant special consideration on the basis of "sexual orientation" that would not be extended to other employees in the workplace.

ENDA violates employers' and employees' Constitutional freedoms of religion, speech and association. The proposed legislation would prohibit employers from taking their deeply held beliefs into account when making personnel decisions. This would pose an unprecedented intrusion by the federal government into people's lives.

ENDA would approvingly bring private behavior considered imoral by many into the public square. By declaring that all sexual preferences are equally valid, ENDA would change national policy supporting marriage and family.

HRC claims that ENDA does not apply to religious organizations, but the 2007 version of the law only provided a religious exemption for religious positions that were involved in actual teaching or proclamation of doctrine.

Such a limited exemption, some pro-family legal experts argue, would mean that a Christian school that was hiring a secretary, janitor or football coach would not be allowed to reject a homosexual who applied for the slot.

Christian concerns about ENDA are not paranoia. As with the case of hate crime laws, when ENDA-style measures have been passed in other places around the world, religious institutions quickly come under pressure.

ENDA is just one of many ways that gay activists are manipulating law and policy to force Americans to endorse their lifestyle and to muzzle and punish those who disagree.

[IbJensen]

Let your members of congress know you oppose ENDA.

[muawiyah]

My Congresscritter is so fearful of his constituents that he has not held any public meetings, and the few "closed door" private meetings with groups take place at the nether regions of his district or at old folks homes where many of the attendees are wheelchair bound.

I go telling him he should oppose ENDA he's gonna' freak out and send the FBI over here to set siege to my house.

[Tribune7]

It's time to stop playing defense and go on offense. We should seek the repeal of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Keep the rest of it, but if a business wants to discriminate in hiring or promotion for whatever reason good or otherwise that enters its head it should be allowed to do so without fear of government interference.

It would not be all that far off to consider the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the White Employment Act.

Q Why do white men make the best hirees?

A You can fire them when you feel like.

No more protected categories.

[massgopguy]

What about the rights of women not to have mentally ill men wearing dresses in the Ladies’ Room?

[Tribune7]

What about the rights of women not to have mentally ill men wearing dresses in the Ladies’ Room?

There is that too.

If we just let business go about the business of producing goods and services and not being laboratories for social change, then these issues would not come up.

A business that is a freak-show in the workplace really is not likely to succeed, and people inclined to be freaky would quickly learn to control themselves during business hours.