From the BAR’s coverage:
Glen Lavy, an attorney with the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, asserted that protecting transgender persons in the workplace would impinge upon the deeply held religious beliefs of some people. He said, “Federal law should not make a moral judgment for all employers.”
Andrews raised the hypothetical case of whether the deeply held beliefs of a pacifist employer should give him the right to deny hiring a Marine combat veteran on those grounds. Lavy said, “The employer should have the right to do that.”
Representative Phil Hare (D-Illinois) referred to Jesus, but not by name, saying, “He was close to people that nobody else wanted to associate themselves with. I think we should remember that.” He called it “a moral obligation for Congress to act” with legislation to protect those least able to protect themselves.
In Iowa, I lived in Jim Nussle’s district.
In Minnesota, I lived in Gil Gutknecht’s district.
In Texas, I lived in Tom DeLay’s district.
Right now, I live in Phil Hare’s district.
One of those four men is not like the other three - and I don’t mean simply that the other three are no longer in Congress.
Back during the HRC-Barney Frank ENDA depravity of the fall of ‘07, I went to Hare’s local office to beg for a commitment for a yes vote on the legit ENDA and a no vote on the HRC-Barney Frank ENDA.
It didn’t stop the version that would allow proponents of a non-inclusive ENDA to discriminate against trans people, but I hope that letting his office know that the issue was not an abstract one - that he did indeed have constituents who would be left out in the cold by the HRC-Barney Frank ENDA - has helped.
Oh…
Glen Lavy?
Now there’s someone who really needs help.
