Tony Beam
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
CHRISTIANS SHOULD WORK TO END ENDA

http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/beam/11628821/

Congressional watchers expect a renewed push in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).  The House passed a version of ENDA in November of 2007 after a provision that would have included transgender protection was removed.  The bill died in the Senate but a new version was introduced in the House and the Senate in the summer of 2009.  The Obama Administration has pledged to sign any bill that makes it through both houses of Congress.

The bill sounds innocuous enough in that the title simply calls for an end to discrimination in the workplace.  The devil, as always, is in the details because ENDA seeks to elevate sexual orientation to a protected status in federal nondiscrimination laws.  Any elevation of special protected rights extended to people because of sexual orientation or gender confusion will simply add weight to the legal arguments for same-sex marriage.