Well, if you watched the ‘progressive’ senators fold like moldy tents over the health(non)care bill, you’ve seen it – and you’ve seen every excuse that will be trotted out when the Senate does what HRC wants: make the bill homosexually pure. Hell, I just saw an interview with Vermont’s Bernie Sanders on The Ed Show that, with dubbing that could be performed with ten-year-old shareware, could simply be recycled for after ENDA purification.
That, of course, presumes President Rahm Emmanuel will allow ENDA to go anywhere in 2010 other than into a toilet in the Dirksen Building.
One of the better-sounding arguments for passing the Senate bill is that “we can fix it later.” While this does sound appealing at first glance, I just don’t see “fixing it later” happening in the next decade or two. Democrats currently have huge majorities in both Houses and the presidency. I can’t imagine there being a time anytime soon where the Democrats have more power.
Its nice to see FDL talking about the prospects of a non-trans-inclusive ENDA and…
oh…
Walker is talking about the healthcare bill.
Geeee….
Incremental progress sounds just as nauseating even when it involves something other than ENDA.
But I do wonder if those exact words will be recycled by The John when what we all know is going to happen happens…………
A new comment over at The Dyne’s whine – from Randy Wicker:
It’s amazing to read through these postings and arguments. Most prove that those “talking” don’t know what they are talking about.
Heterosexuals equate homosexuality with trans behavior. The perceived violation of what a “male” or “female” should be is a very large component of homophobia.
I know because I was the first homosexual to demonstrate(1964), go on radio(1962) & television(1964) undisguised as an acknowledged homosexual. Whenever I spoke to groups in the early 1960s, members of the audience always asked if I went home at night and put on a dress and/or did I want a sex-change operation. Because of this (and before I got to know some trans people) I felt defensive & was actually transphobic. I felt “falsely accused” by such questions since they ‘challenged’ my much treasured masculinity. Fortunately, education, knowledge & life experiences have transformed me into a passionate supporter of the trans community today.
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There are millions of different genders. We all begin as females & we all end up being a mixture of male & female but are afraid to admit it.
Gov. David A. Paterson is preparing to issue an executive order that would include transgender people in antidiscrimination policies that govern state agencies.
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While supporters of transgender legal protections were encouraged by Mr. Paterson’s order, they said it placed New York only in the middle of the pack among states that already make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in the public and private sectors.
“It has been a long road, and I think New York is behind,” said Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights attorney for Lambda Legal, a national advocacy group. “So this will bring New York up to par with other states that are taking the lead on workplace fairness.”
Really? Unless New York executive orders provide for a private right of action (either in court or some administrative proceeding that can yield an enforceable decision) and provide some mechanism for redress by people who are applying for state employment but are not yet state employees, then the executive order will be worth about…
oh…
about as much as the coverage of the order (now issued) at a certain Zakerria Bellamy-free website:
Joann Prinzivalli was at the press conference regarding the order:
I’m just back from the press conference and proclamation-signing. Pragmatically, I am happy to take what I can get at the moment, and at the moment, that is the executive order banning anti-trans discrimination in state employment.Today, the Governor did expressly call for GENDA to be passed “in January, February, or March” of 2010. Clearly, he is signaling that he does not expect us to be waiting for the budget to get through first.
Well, I expect us to be in back of gay marriage and anything else gay-specific that the MDS crowd dreams up to shunt political energy away from removing the special right of gays and lesbians to discriminate against trans people.
Secretary of State Clinton on Monday called gay rights the “new frontier” in the U.S. push for worldwide democracy and human rights.
“It is at the top of our list,” Clinton said in a major human rights address at Georgetown University.
Just like adding trans people to existing gay rights laws is “at the top” of everyone’s list. HRC’s HRC couldn’t be bothered to say the T-word or ‘LGBT’, yadda, yadda, yadda.
No Bellamy vs. McDonald’s, but (in reverse order from their appearance in the screensnap):
A gay ambassador
Gays in the military
GLB(T?) employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development
N.Y. gay marriage
N.J. gay marriage
Possible gay California House speaker
Homophobic attacks on Annise Parker
Christian law school groups
The Onion
PFAW on the “New McCarthyism”
N.J. Marriage
Rachel def. ex-gay moron
California gay marriage
Adam Lambert
Gay marriage in general
Taken individually?
I can’t say that any of them are completely irrelevant (though Adam Lambert comes pretty close), and, in fact several are highly relevant (the Houston mayoral runoff is this coming Saturday.)
But…
Of fifteen posts: five on gay marriage and one on gays in the military? And that’s in addition one on federal employment (which, thanks to the classic HRC-consecrated definition of ’sexual orientation’, can’t legitimately be said to include ‘T’.)
And nothing about a case which should be to McDonald’s what Cheryl Summerville’s was to Cracker Barrel.
Ironic, no? Given that the proprietor of the targeted blog incessantly cites his connection to the Summerville case as authority to declare all who criticize – and repeatedly disprove the legitimacy of – ‘incremental progress’ as “late to the ball“?
I helped Cheryl Summerville, the lesbian fired from Cracker Barrel for being gay, draft her testimony for Senator Kennedy’s Labor Committee hearing on ENDA in 1994. I can’t count too many of my critics who have been working on ENDA since the early 1990s.
And doubly, triply and fourply ironic given the particular justification for worshipping St. Barney that he was hawking back in 2007?
Openly-gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) spoke last night on the House floor about ENDA. Among other things, Barney explained why trying and failing is often worse than not trying at all
Gee, John…
You mean how like the rich, white, don’t-have-to-worry-about-employment-discrimination-cuz-we got-that-in-2002 gays and lesbians in New York ‘tried and failed’ on gay marriage last week????
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