Memorandum from Congressman Barney Frank on ENDA

[Butterfly]

Memorandum from Congressman Barney Frank on ENDA

Edge Boston
10/16/2007

"After a meeting with the Democratic members of the House Education and Labor committee, someone asked me to reflect on what would have been the case if people had been asked to vote against the civil rights bill in 1964 because it excluded gays and lesbians. In fact, that was so far back in American social history that people weren't really thinking about gay and lesbian people at the time. But it is true that even after sexual orientation became an issue, we have been passing civil rights acts prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, and ethnicity without including gay men or lesbians".

[Lori]

While he does have a point, but this is not 1964 and we as a society should have learned from past mistakes and shown a little more maturity by 2007.

[Lisbeth]

So, how is he saying race and sexuality orientation are related to each other?  Oh, wait a minute... he still thinks that transsexuals are sick, gay men who want to mutilate their bodies.

I like the first comment on the article:

ZoeB, 2007-10-16 17:53:47
An exact analogy: Congressman Frank has made a bill protecting racial minorities one that only protects those who can "pass for white".
This would not have been acceptable in the 60's, and it's not acceptable now.