Not Sure About The Transgenders in ENDA; CBS pushes hate group message
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
April 16, 2010 9:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/not_sure_about_the_transgenders_in_enda.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/not_sure_about_the_transgenders_in_enda.php)
An article appeared yesterday in Roll Call, a DC newspaper covering legislative news.
In it, Rep. Collin Peterson, so-called "Democrat" of Minnesota, said he's not sure whether transgender people should be included in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that coming up before Congress.
And CBS News, after a long silence on ENDA, yesterday published an article naively devoted to the worst lies of a hate group on the Southern Poverty Law Center watch list, the Traditional Values Coalition. Entitled "Church Lobby Warns of Transgendered Teachers," the article calmly discusses TVC's position that children in every state will be trapped in classes taught by "men undergoing a so-called sex change to become women." This follows another incident involving CBS News in which the White House called it an "enabler of lies" for publishing right-wing rumors about Supreme Court nominee Kagan's sexual orientation.
I think what Petersen, and so many other politicians who waffle on the subject, is saying is, "I'm not sure how supporting TGs in the ENDA bill will effect me being re-elected."