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AFL-CIO RESOLUTION: Equal Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Workplace
AFL-CIO ^ | March 3, 2005 | AFL-CIO Executive Committee

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aflcio; cults; gay; hoffa; homosexual; idolatry; perverts; sweeney; teamsters; union; unions
National AFL-CIO officials' formal opposition to constitutional protection of one-man, one-woman marriage has never been reported outside of the "gay" press, but is about to be.

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.

1 posted on 06/02/2005 10:05:02 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: AFA-Michigan

Unions are so gay.


2 posted on 06/02/2005 10:05:40 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

heh. I think that about sums it up.


3 posted on 06/02/2005 10:06:35 PM PDT by kenth
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To: AFA-Michigan

All we need are three categories: man, woman, thing. Once announced, they can be treated accordingly. This should be adequate.


4 posted on 06/02/2005 10:07:35 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Delenda est Liberalism!)
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To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...

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.


5 posted on 06/02/2005 10:09:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
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To: little jeremiah

Still 13 million members, who probably have no clue that this resolution was adopted. Spread the word.


6 posted on 06/02/2005 10:13:08 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: AFA-Michigan

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.


7 posted on 06/02/2005 10:16:05 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: dead
Unions are so gay.

When did they start organizing hair salons, boutiques, florist shops and the WNBA?

8 posted on 06/02/2005 10:20:50 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: AFA-Michigan

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?


9 posted on 06/02/2005 10:29:16 PM PDT by konaice
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To: konaice

Nope, just to a vote of the national AFL-CIO Executive Committee, a couple dozen union officials representing each affliate union. Vote was unanimous!


10 posted on 06/02/2005 10:31:27 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: AFA-Michigan

BARF ALERT!


11 posted on 06/02/2005 10:32:42 PM PDT by endthematrix (Thank you US armed forces, for everything you give and have given!)
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To: little jeremiah

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.


12 posted on 06/02/2005 11:30:15 PM PDT by rootvg (No. All Of You Are Missing The Boat.)
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To: AFA-Michigan

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."


13 posted on 06/03/2005 5:18:54 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Dealing with liberals? Remember: when you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and he loves it.)
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To: AFA-Michigan
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.

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.

14 posted on 06/03/2005 5:26:50 AM PDT by Eva
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To: AFA-Michigan
The AFL-CIO is no longer the organization George Meany ran. Its little more than a liberal special interest group that's now advocating causes that have little to do with improving the condition of workers. We need strong unions but the AFL-CIO isn't interested in the role. What a surprise its slid way to the kook Left.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
15 posted on 06/03/2005 5:31:42 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: rootvg

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.


16 posted on 06/03/2005 7:03:45 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
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To: AFA-Michigan

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.


17 posted on 06/03/2005 1:54:21 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox (Be not Afraid. "Perfect love drives out fear.")
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To: AFA-Michigan

How would you prove someone is gay?


18 posted on 06/03/2005 2:01:20 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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