Posted on 11/07/2013 1:27:46 PM PST by lbryce
The Senate passed historic gay rights legislation Thursday to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the workplace, another victory for the gay rights movement that has been gaining favor in the courts and electoral politics.
Senators voted 64 to 32 to approve the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
The vote marked the first time lawmakers had approved legislation to advance gay rights since repealing the military’s ban on gay men and lesbians in uniform in late 2010 and came two days after Illinois became the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Just four months ago the U.S. Supreme Court sanctioned federal recognition of legally married gay couples.
“Let freedom ring,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the bill’s chief sponsor, said shortly before the vote.
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Game Over.
“Let freedom ring,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the bill’s chief sponsor, said shortly before the vote.
Let Freedom Ring? Let Freedom Ring??
What sort of freedom is that?. The freedom to violate every societal norm, the freedom to commit all sorts of depravity, freedom to co-opt, corrupt the natural way of things. The freedom to indulge in lascivious behavior and worse...
If these people are celebrating freedom, the rest of us will never be free.
Big deal. It’ll go nowhere in the House.
You can still refuse them a job because they are Democrats.
Hope your right.
DOA in the House.
So glad we still control that. This is going to go along with the 90% of bills in our history that are passed by one chamber, and not even brought up in the other.
Let Merkley make his doofus remarks. The fact is, we still have a constitution.
So who were the idiot Republicans who voted for this disgusting bill? Dem majority isn’t that huge.
Are the faggies that powerful or does the 98% majority just let them act that way?
Yeah, the world’s most deliberative body, the one that couldn’t find the time to hold hearings on Obamacare slavery, polishes its self image by forcing freaks and perverts on the rest of us.
Now businesses are forced to hire Happy People and Jolly Good Fellows!
But HOMOSEXUALS are still deviants who can be ignored.
NEXT ON THE SENATE AGENDA:
Federally mandated and subsidized Glory Holes in all restrooms.
Just as an aside, another plant in our company recently found cause to dismiss one of these gender confused freaks. They basically has to give himit hisits' own private privy because heit might have sued them if he'dit'd been told to use the men's room. And the genuine ladies might have sued if they were forced to share the facilities with a one manperson freak show.
In the interim, a solution was created by turning the visitors ladies room into hisits' own private privy and escorting real women visitors who needed to use the facilities to the employee women's room.
There wasn't anything heit was contributing that justified the expense of creating and maintaining this situation.
CELEBRATE PERVERSITY!
This is just a way to get the Reps on the record so they can use it against them in 2014 or 2016. With everything else facing this country, it shows why the Senate is a failed institution.
Intrinsically crap law written and supported by idiots.
I don’t know, there are several RINOs in the House who would vote for it in a minute. It depends if Boehner allows it for a floor vote or not. If he allows it, it will get 100% Rat approval and enough RINOs to pass.
Agree.
The only thing this bill will do is open up more lawsuits and force Christian-based businesses to not refuse to hire homos.
Employers don’t give a crap about your personal stuff if you do a good job. Period.
and when elections come around we are told RINO’s are our friends
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