Posted on 06/02/2005 10:05:02 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
March 03, 2005 Las Vegas
The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.
We believe that all union members are entitled to equal rights and that all of their families should have access to benefits they need and deserve. The AFL-CIO is dedicated to fighting for those rights at the bargaining table, in the voting booth, in city halls and statehouses, and on Capitol Hill.
The AFL-CIO recognizes that families come in all shapes and sizes. As our families change, our union contracts also change. For more than a generation, unions have negotiated domestic partner benefits for the workers they represent, which provide crucial access to health care, family and medical leave, and other benefits for our heterosexual families and seniors as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families.
Now, through the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), some members of the U.S. Congress want to amend the U.S. Constitution to deny important rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families, such as the right to hospital visitation, inheritance, and health care rights for partners. On November 2, 2004, eleven states passed similar marriage amendments to their state constitutions.
In its 214-year history, the U.S. Constitution has been amended only 18 times, to grant basic civil rights. For example, we added the Bill of Rights in 1791 to guarantee some of our most basic civil and criminal rights. We also abolished slavery and gave the vote to women and young people by amending the Constitution. But we have never amended the Constitution to discriminate against any group of people by denying them rights.
The FMA and its state counterparts threaten the rights of working people by creating an environment across the nation that is hostile to the rights of domestic partners, regardless of their sexual orientation. Unions will have an increasingly difficult time making gains in domestic partner benefits, and preserving those benefits that they have already won at the table. The AFL-CIO reiterates its longstanding support for the full inclusion and equal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace and in society.
Polls indicate union households strongly support constitutionally protecting marriage. Detroit News last fall reported poll that found "two-thirds of union households support(ed)" that state's marriage amendment, eventually approved by 59 percent of voters in November.
Democratic pollster Pat Caddell on Special Report with Brit Hume Nov. 10: "Fifty-seven percent to 64 percent of union members voted for" state Marriage Protection Amendments in Michigan and Ohio.
AFL-CIO officials clearly out of step with AFL-CIO union members on the issue of marriage.
Unions are so gay.
heh. I think that about sums it up.
All we need are three categories: man, woman, thing. Once announced, they can be treated accordingly. This should be adequate.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, at least for tonight. Unions supporting not only regular homosexuals but BISEXUALS and TRANSGENDERED "people"???? How many people actually still belong to this union?
Why not support necrophiliacs and the bestiality crowd?
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
Still 13 million members, who probably have no clue that this resolution was adopted. Spread the word.
It's not discriminating against people, just behavior. It's also recognizing reality -- humans are heterosexual. They might desire abnormal sexual behavior, but they are denying the reality of their own bodies.
When did they start organizing hair salons, boutiques, florist shops and the WNBA?
Does this sound like something that actually went to a vote of the membership? Can anyone here actually visualize a bunch of butt-crack pipe fiters voting for such a thing?
Nope, just to a vote of the national AFL-CIO Executive Committee, a couple dozen union officials representing each affliate union. Vote was unanimous!
BARF ALERT!
I said twenty years ago that homosexual rights are only a foot-in-the-door to endorsing every facet of deviant sexual behavior imaginable.
Today, they'll say it's OK to be gay but tomorrow it'll be necrophilia or someone wanting to get married to an animal for tax reasons.
Most of these people are pathetic, weak, emotionally dysfunctional personalities.
Until 1974, homosexuality was listed in DSM by the American Psychological Association as a disease...and was only removed under threat of lawsuits from the gay lobby.
OK...so they threatened a lawsuit. It changes nothing.
Years back there was a popular song that went: "Just keep up, boom boom boom, just keep up boom boom boom just keep it up and see what happens."
How do they get this out of the defense of marriage act? No can deny you inheritance if your partner has a will. No will deny you hospital visitation of your partner gives you written consent (so have it on hand in case of emergency)and I don't know what healtcare rights they are talking about.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
If only everyone knew what you knew.
One consolation is that the more outrageous the "gay" rights pushers' demands, and the more outrageous the behavior of homosexuals, more people currently asleep at the wheel will wake up. Evidence of this is the fact that everywhere actual voters are allowed to vote about "gay" marriage, it has been defeated soundly.
Chances are, this is the only way they could get the Dems' attention. Only those who bend over for unconventional sexual practices get the attention of the Dem leadership. Labor just doesn't understand that, either way, they are screwed.
How would you prove someone is gay?
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