Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 04:00 PM PDT
Occupy Equality
by rserven
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/14/1026456/-Occupy-EqualitySubtitle: The majority of Americans (including small business owners) support ENDA
How high does the percentage of Americans who believe that GLBT people should have legal protection from discrimination in the workplace have to be before this country will act on the will of the people?
Last June a Center for American Progress poll revealed that 73% of likely 2012 voters supported workplace discrimination protections for GLBT people. That was 81% of democrats, 74% of independents and even 66% of republicans. Catholics favored the concept with 74% support and senior citizens with 61% support.
Since at least the early 1980s, a majority of Americans have supported equal rights and opportunities for gay people in the workplace. Polling questions about transgender workers have only been asked recently. But the CAP poll shows that voters support transgender protections at almost the same rate they support gay protections. Seventy-five percent of likely voters say they favor "protecting gay and lesbian people from discrimination in employment," while 73 percent say they favor these protections for "gay, lesbian, and transgender people." The responses are essentially identical.
