Weiss: ENDA Offers Jobs Protection
By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
Special to Roll Call
April 22, 2010, 12 a.m.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_120/ma_congressional_relations/45476-1.html (http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_120/ma_congressional_relations/45476-1.html)
Andrea Lafferty, of the Traditional Values Coalition, published a column on Tuesday suggesting that Representatives will find it difficult to vote for the upcoming Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which is a jobs bill that would provide basic nondiscrimination protections to a class of people who regularly face discrimination.
The Traditional Values Coalition is an anti-gay hate group on the watch list of the Southern Poverty Law Center. TVC raises money by scaring people about gruesome but unlikely events that will result from prohibiting discrimination. Its claims demean gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and our lives and do nothing to help this Congress address the high level of job discrimination that puts many of us in the unemployment line.