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| More special protections for homosexuals coming
If successful American employers might be forced to hire cross-dressers.
How would you like your child to be taught by a guy wearing women's clothing?
(Washington) Three key LGBT bills currently before Congress - the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell - are likely to die when the current session ends, leaving it up to the new Congress to take them up.
The Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act was named for the 21-year-old college student who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. It would have added sexual orientation to the list of categories covered under federal hate crime law.
If the Shepard Act is passed, it would allow federal charges to be pressed in hate crimes against gays and give judges the power to impose tougher sentences.
(presumably these sentences would NOT apply to gay criminals)
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, also passed the House in 2007, but without protections for the transgendered.
The legislation would make it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in hiring, firing, promoting or paying an employee. When ENDA returns, it is likely to include gender identity protections.
ENDA, originally introduced by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), included transpeople, but Frank removed those protections in committee saying it would be impossible to pass.
More than a dozen LGBT groups immediately distanced themselves from the legislation. Frank and the Human Rights Campaign now say they will fight to ensure an inclusive ENDA is passed.
Legislation to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” the ban on gays serving openly in the military was taken up in committee this year for the first time, but did not make it to a vote.
DADT was enacted in 1993. Since then more than 12,000 servicemembers have been dismissed when it was learned they are gay. According to statistics from the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network which advocates for gays in the military an average of two service members are dismissed under the law every day.
It also is widely expected that legislation will be introduced to repeal the so-called federal Defense of Marriage law that forbids the federal government from recognizing any form of gay union - marriage, civil union or domestic partnership. President-elect Barack Obama has said he would sign such a repeal, although no Democrat has so far said such a bill would be brought in.
4 major LGBT bills await new Congress | 365 Gay News Sounds like more states need to amend their Constitutions and fast, for the sake of protecting traditional marriage.
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gaysher is just trolling for attention
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Originally Posted by tadpole256  I was unaware that homosexuals were getting any special protections... |
Well now ya know !
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Originally Posted by tadpole256 I was unaware that homosexuals were getting any special protections... | Only in Garysher's little world.
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Originally Posted by highway80west Only in Garysher's little world. | It's right there in the news report Willie: If the Shepard Act is passed, it would allow federal charges to be pressed in hate crimes against gays
whether you like it or not!
(Insert willie's non-sequitur here)
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Originally Posted by garysher It's right there in the news report Willie:
If the Shepard Act is passed, it would allow federal charges to be pressed in hate crimes against gays
whether you like it or not!
(Insert willie's non-sequitur here)
| In other words, sexual orientation would be added to the federal hate crimes legislation....and then homosexuals would have no more special rights than Christians who are covered under religion.
Right?
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Originally Posted by knowuryder In other words, sexual orientation would be added to the federal hate crimes legislation....and then homosexuals would have no more special rights than Christians who are covered under religion.
Right?
| Not according to GayNews
They said: If the Shepard Act is passed, it would allow federal charges to be pressed in hate crimes against gays
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| Gary, you said that "presumably these sentences would NOT apply to gay criminals".
Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone of real intelligence that if a gay person commits a crime against another gay person, that it was not done out of hate for them being gay? | |
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