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Title: ENDA vote scuttled
Post by: katia on October 04, 2007, 11:14:50 PM
ENDA vote scuttled

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2269
by Lisa Keen
10/4/2007

'A major controversy has erupted within the LGBT community over a decision by U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) to seek passage of a new version of ENDA that both excludes gender identity and, in the view of a major gay legal organization, is so "riddled with loopholes" as to render it a "far weaker bill" with seriously diminished ability to protect gay men and lesbians from workplace discrimination'