Susan's Place Logo

News:

Since its founding in 1995 Susan's Place forums have blossomed into a truly global lifeline. To date we've delivered roughly 1.4 billion page views to hundreds of millions of unique visitors, guided more than 41,000 registered members through 1,985,081 posts and 188,474 topics across 193 boards, and—most importantly—helped save tens of thousands of lives by connecting people to vital information and support at their most vulnerable moments.

Main Menu

ENDA is Justice Long Overdue

Started by Shana A, September 29, 2009, 09:16:36 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Shana A

September 29, 2009, 09:16:36 AM
ENDA is Justice Long Overdue

by Liz Seaton, Director of Projects and Managing Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)

http://nclrights.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/enda-is-justice-long-overdue/

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), (HR 3017) and (S 1584), is federal legislation intended to prohibit discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. This legislation, now pending in both chambers of Congress, is both critically needed and long overdue.

Recently, the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on ENDA (pictures, testimony, and video are available here). The hearing featured witnesses who provided compelling testimony about the incidence and severity of discrimination, about the scope of the measure and its carefully drafted provisions, about the bill's relationship to existing federal law, the workplace non-discrimination policies in corporate America, and about the religious exemption in the bill.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
  •  
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions