ENDA can't wait either

[Shana A]

Sun Jan 22, 2012 at 01:30 PM PST
ENDA can't wait either
by Scott Wooledge

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/22/1056979/-ENDA-cant-wait-either?via=blog_1

A recent $155K settlement brokered by the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with Virginia-based military contractor DynCorp International over a case of a homophobic hostile work environment has placed renewed focus on President Obama to amend Executive Order 11246 to include employment opportunity and non-discrimination protection on the basis of sexual orientation and gender expression. With the Employment Non-Discrimination act (ENDA) likely hopelessly blocked in Congress this move is seen as an "Executive ENDA" that offers enormous benefit to moving the issue of LGBT workplace discrimination forward.

[Jamie D]

Executive orders can never take the place of legislation.  It is the Constitutional role of the Congress to legislate, and the Constitutional role of the Executive to enforce that legislation.

Executive orders designed to circumvent Congress are one step short of tyranny.

More on the subject HERE