God save us
Posted on 03/23/2014 9:18:51 PM PDT by Nachum
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden called on Congress Saturday to pass a measure to outlaw workplace discrimination against gays, saying it's outrageous that the country is even debating the subject.
Speaking to supporters of the gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign on Saturday, Biden said it's "close to barbaric" that in some states, employees can be fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
"Imagine 20 years from now as America looked back and say 'How in the hell can that ever been allowed?' The country's moved on, the American people have moved on," he said.
He said it was time for Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act — known as ENDA — which would bar employers with 15 or more workers from using a person's sexual orientation or gender identity as the basis for making employment decisions, including hiring, firing, compensation or promotion. Religious institutions and the military would be exempted.
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35 million+ HIV infections is what is “barbaric,” you pandering self absorbed bas****
That's what I said when the congress first got involved.
THE RATE JOEY AND HUSSEIN ARE DESTROYING AMERICA, THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT IN TWENTY YEARS...
he is so full of bull...
Joe where were you and obama when Americans were being murdered in Benghazi?
Yes, they got a gay employee killed there, didn't they?
Now that was barbaric....
Apparently, the solution is to pass laws making it illegal to fire homosexuals. As an entrepreneur, what that means to me is what ever business I may be involved in will have no employees, gay straight or otherwise. That saves me from having some poofter sue me for firing it and eliminates the possibility of any accusation of bigotry. Problem solved.
What Biden is "overlooking" concerning his statement about Congress legislatively addressing remedies for workplace discrimination against gays is the following. With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, not only have the states never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power regulate intrastate workplace issues, the states uniquely having the 10th Amendment-protected power to regulate such issues, but also consider the following. Neither have the states amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay "rights."
So if Biden really wants the feds to have the constitutional authority to make laws which outlaw workplace discrimination against gays, this is what he must do. Biden must work with Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution to the states which will expressly give gays the workplace protections that he wants them to have. And if the states choose to ratify Biden's amendment then gays will have constitutionally enumerated workplace protection and Biden will be a hero.
What a joke
Is he talking about homosexuals?
Straight and about to be fired?
No problem. Go queer until the coast clears.
Yeah Joe, almost as barbaric as a$$-hat fascists trying to take away our freedoms and tell us what to do every moment of our lives...
God save us
Here’s the other problem. I would be reluctant to hire an openly gay person if this passes, even if qualified. If I fire this person for work reasons, there’s a federal lawsuit.
if only....
Hey joe. It’s Sunday. Why not just go to mass and rest your mouth the rest of the day?
You can thumb through that funny old book in the pew. The one that says Bible on it. Who knows, you might discover something you like in there? We do live for hope, and miracles can happen.
It's the transformation from "The perversion that dare not speak its name, to the perversion that can't shut the hell up!"
(Literally and figuratively)
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