Posted on 05/19/2016 5:37:10 PM PDT by massmike
Democrats shouted "Shame! Shame!," but seven Republicans switched their votes and defeated a measure to protect gay rights.
The final vote was 213-212 after the chaos on the House floor. That was enough to defeat an amendment by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., aimed at upholding an executive order that bars discrimination against LGBT employees by federal contractors.
Maloney and other Democrats were incensed. "They literally snatched discrimination from the jaws of equality," Maloney said.
He said he had approached Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as McCarthy worked on GOP colleagues to vote against the measure. McCarthy told Maloney to get back on his side of the aisle.
"I told him, 'What side am I supposed to stand on in support of equality?'" said Maloney, New York's first openly gay congressman. "It was disgraceful."
Maloney's amendment would have prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to violate President Barack Obama's executive order barring discrimination.
"There are some people who are emotional ... that's beyond the pale. They can say whatever they want to but that's beyond the pale," said Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, asked about Democrats saying Republicans were a party of hate. "This country has a First Amendment that protects religious liberties, and that's all we were doing is protecting that."
Democrats were outraged, loudly chanting as their leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, yelled up from near the well of the House at her members, imploring them to vote down the underlying bill.
In the end, 29 Republicans joined 183 Democrats backing the measure, but it was not enough.
Democrats were quick to publicize the name of the Republican vote-switchers. Reps. Darrell Issa, Jeff Denham, David Valadao and Mimi Walters of California; Greg Walden of Oregon; Bruce Poliquin of Maine; and David Young of Iowa.
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Fag and tranny loving Democrats don’t want to stop there - its not equality they want, its to force their perverted values upon the country - with our tax dollars.
But they dare not talk about it.
This whole thing reads like satire.
Gay rights? Such a biased headline. What about Christian rights? Privacy rights?
What about our right to be normal?
Ah, if you desire it, Nancy Pelosi will call you a bigot.
In the Democratic Party, tolerance is a one-way street.
“They literally snatched discrimination from the jaws of equality”
LOL!
The Dems knew they could count on the media to work for them.
That’s a great thing about Trump: he knows they’re one and the same.
Shouldn't have been that close. How about an overwhelming vote in favor of religious freedom, giving people whose religion does not approve of homosexuality the green light not to have to participate in what others freely choose?
And I want the names of 29 Republicans.
RNC, don't bother calling me.
Equality means I have to have alternative lifestyles literally shoved in my face, whether I want it or not.
That’s why they’re complaining being left alone isn’t good enough for normal Americans.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
Wasn’t that long ago they were demanding we stay out of their bedrooms.
Now they’re demanding we come in.
Our side is utterly failing to address the core issue: ONLY man+woman=offspring, an objective difference from any other pantomimes of copulation.
It takes little imagination what should have been shouted back at them.
Finally!! Someone stood to the gay mafia.
What do perverts know of shame?
They don’t know the meaning of the word.
After all, right and wrong don’t matter. Why do they get so upset?
According to them, its all subjective. One’s opinions are as valid as another’s.
Who are they to get off telling people they can’t disagree on LGBT?
I certainly don’t acknowledge it.
They don’t know the meaning of the word.
After all, right and wrong don’t matter. Why do they get so upset?
According to them, its all subjective. One’s opinions are as valid as another’s.
Who are they to get off telling people they can’t disagree on LGBT?
I certainly don’t acknowledge it.
If you can’t say out loud that homosexuality is a perversion, then you are doomed to see it equated with race discrimination. Even Repubs find themselves unable to call it what it is, or to recognize openly that transgenderism is a mental disorder.
It is perversion, and a mental disorder. Granted, I don’t care what people do on their own time behind their own closed doors, but you don’t let people with mental problems dictate public policy. You don’t let openly immoral people dictate what is right and wrong. Liberty means we agree to mind our own business, but it also means you don’t make your personal foibles my business.
This is not just about religious rights or issues. I can’t imagine even atheists would want their daughters changing with male perverts. But it appears most dems and now even a handful of spineless Rino’s favor it. Sick.
Bill Flores is my representative...I like him!
Looking in vain for the bill number. May the sharper-eyed cite it, please.
freaks are not equal
tranny freaks are more equal
queer freaks are less equal
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