Arguments Against ENDA: Are We Ready? (Part I)
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
September 7, 2009 11:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/09/arguments_against_enda.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/09/arguments_against_enda.php)
No one in the national media is yet focusing much on the upcoming Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and neither the proponents on the left nor the opponents on the rights have said much either. But there is much to be said, and sooner or later, the weary war of words will begin. Just as in the health care debate, the war will not be fought by massed armies on the field of rationality, but as hand-to-hand combat in the streets of demagoguery.
Our opponents will not fight fair, and it's going to hurt very personally when they start hurling arguments designed to appeal to the lowest of raw prejudices. Are we ready?
Along about the time the real mudslinging starts we should see barney an joe start slinging transsexuals under the bus again. Get your treadmarked suits out.
Yes, barney we know the drill. You get yours now and you'll come back for us.
I'm still bitter and cynical. I won't stop being cynical until a trans inclusive bill has the dried ink on it from the Presidents pen!
-Sandy
with as much flack as they are getting for healthcare, I'd think they could almost just slip this in under the door. Does the rightwing even have time to fight this battle TOO?
I doubt it Sara, if Obama's been smart about anything it's been throwing so much stuff out so fast that the other side can't react to all of it.
And it's funny how many people are still all butthurt about the last go round, which wasn't going to pass in the first place, and if it had, BushII wasn't going to sign it. They seem to be sticking with the full bill this time, and, like before, its the Senate not the House that is going to hang it up.