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Gay rights supporters push beyond marriage to broader legal protections
The Houston Chronicle ^ | June 27, 2015 | Paul Kane, The Washington Post |

Posted on 06/28/2015 4:36:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Fresh off their biggest legal victory, gay rights supporters began to expand their efforts beyond same-sex marriage to a broad push to rewrite civil rights law and extend protections to other personal and financial actions.

A liberal coalition spanning gay rights groups and traditional African-American leaders turned its attention to a new legislative bid to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals in employment, housing, financial dealings and other regular actions not protected under the Supreme Court's ruling declaring same-sex marriage a constitutional right.

"You can be married on Saturday, post your pictures on Instagram on Sunday and fired from your job on Monday," Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., the lead sponsor in the House of the new legislation, said Saturday.

After Friday's ruling, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the sponsor of the legislation in that chamber, emailed thousands of supporters asking them to get behind the new bid because, despite the marriage decision, it is still legal in some states to "kick someone out of a diner or other public accommodation because of who they love."(continued)

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To: ought-six

America has seceded from us


41 posted on 06/28/2015 6:23:54 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is — of course — never enough.


42 posted on 06/28/2015 6:30:52 AM PDT by Salman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
By the time they get around to figuring all of this out -- even if it only takes a few months -- the cultural/political climate in the U.S. is going to be such a freak show that homosexual couples are going to seem like old-fashioned prudes.

Wait until the first Muslim family with four wives and 21 children files a "fair housing" discrimination suit against a homosexual landlord.

43 posted on 06/28/2015 6:39:27 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: PSUGOP

I saw where someone said ‘gay’ is the new ‘black’ .... I wonder how Jesse & Al will feel about that?

It’s also an “interesting” situation that the First Black President has done very little for ‘blacks’ and so much for ‘gays’ ... even painted the WH with the gay flag colors.


44 posted on 06/28/2015 6:42:25 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: Vaquero

“America has seceded from us.”

So very, very true.


45 posted on 06/28/2015 6:44:23 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: wastoute
Most blacks are agin queer marriage.

Not anymore. Obama has changed their minds.

46 posted on 06/28/2015 6:53:02 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: a fool in paradise

Jack Paar would not be allowed to say that in this world although I wouldn’t say it either.

Paar identified what gay people were doing in the entertainment and fashion industries then and they have been doing it ever since with increasing visibility.

But why were gay people doing this? For reasons involving bullying in childhood, codependency or addiction issues, sexual abuse in childhood and so on, among other things.

I identify with LGBT people, not as LGBT. I don’t want to fight them, I want to demonstrate Love to them, which they try to find through their sexuality.

Love in its spiritual form isn’t sexual. That’s where LGBT people have taken a course which could be disastrous especially if they continue on a pathway of imposing their wills on others who are unwilling.


47 posted on 06/28/2015 6:59:34 AM PDT by Nextrush ( FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, DON'T BE PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Same sex marriage won’t help them find peace anymore than a confused person obtaining a “sex change” brings lasting peace.


48 posted on 06/28/2015 7:04:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
it is still legal in some states to "kick someone out of a diner or other public accommodation because of who they love."

I suspect it is the attire, volume of conversation, foul language used in conversation, or nauseating public displays of affection that get them ejected; not merely two men or two women out on a date.

49 posted on 06/28/2015 7:06:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
it is still legal in some states to "kick someone out of a diner or other public accommodation because of who they love."

Time was hotels wouldn't rent a room to unmarried couples of opposite sex (between adulterous affairs and prostitution, they didn't want to be involved).

50 posted on 06/28/2015 7:07:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Vaquero

“Perhaps the CSA will rise again?”

Thank God the South still has a battle flag they can rally around...oh...wait...never mind. /s


51 posted on 06/28/2015 7:40:19 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (There were no muslims on the Mayflower)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You can be married on Saturday, post your pictures on Instagram on Sunday and fired from your job on Monday,”

What legislation can we pass that will protect them from the wrath of God?


52 posted on 06/28/2015 8:43:21 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You can be married on Saturday, post your pictures on Instagram on Sunday and fired from your job on Monday,”

What legislation can we pass that will protect them from the wrath of God?


53 posted on 06/28/2015 8:46:04 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where are they going? I’d like to join them.


54 posted on 06/28/2015 3:09:49 PM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

forcing others to participate in your perversion is not “protection”


55 posted on 06/28/2015 3:11:59 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: a fool in paradise

>>Slippery slope, here it is.

I keep thinking we’re going to hit the bottom of that slope any day now. But, nope, we just keep on sliding down, down, down. This is like a bottomless pit.


56 posted on 06/28/2015 3:12:25 PM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"You can be married on Saturday, post your pictures on Instagram on Sunday and fired from your job on Monday,"

They want affirmative action for gays, and immunity from being fired. Any attempt to fire one, or not hire one, will produce a discrimination lawsuit.

They don't want equality -- they want supremacy.

57 posted on 06/28/2015 3:15:54 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come fokquote>r you.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

>>No one speaks up.

Everybody knows what’s in room 101.


58 posted on 06/29/2015 6:55:02 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: Don W

Not with a bang but a whimper.

This is the way the Republic ends.


59 posted on 06/29/2015 6:56:24 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Yep.

Little things like pointing out that Nature selected Sex and not the mutual masturbation selected for worship by reprobate perverts.


60 posted on 06/29/2015 7:00:20 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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