It just occurred to me after reading the article -- all that Barney Franks appears to care about is same-sex marriage, and he's jettisoning anything and everything he can to get some sort of thing on the books that will leverage a leap to same-sex marriage. So, were TG protections included in this bill for our value as jettisonable ballast?
We do have the power to hold him hostage. We (G, L, B and T, as well as gender-conforming heterosexuals who are sympathetic to our cause(s), can scuttle the one thing he seems to really want -- the 'right' to marry who you wish to without prohibition due to non-conformance to currently-enforced mores.
--But that would be rude and nasty and increase the divisiveness, wouldn't it?
Karen
