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Title: Barack Obama Blogs About Discrimination for the Huffington Post
Post by: suzifrommd on November 04, 2013, 08:59:08 AM
Barack Obama Blogs About Discrimination for the Huffington Post

Abby Ohlheiser, Nov 3, 2013

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/11/barack-obama-blogs-about-discrimination-huffington-post/71208/ (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/11/barack-obama-blogs-about-discrimination-huffington-post/71208/)

Barack Obama: President of the United States, and Huffington Post blogger. In a post on Sunday night, Obama made the case for Congress to finally pass ENDA, otherwise known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The measure would protect gay and transgender employees from discrimination on the basis of their orientation or gender identity, and it goes up for a vote in the Senate Monday night. Speaking of that lack of protection for LGBT Americans, the president wrote: "It's offensive. It's wrong. And it needs to stop, because in the United States of America, who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense."