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ENDA For LGBT: Obama’s Got Your Back

Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 17th, 2014


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Good morning!

Here’s one for the LGBT community, and another feather in Obama’s hat.

From The MaddowBlog.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) joined North Carolina business leaders in Charlotte during a press conference to show support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, July 9, 2013.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) joined North Carolina business leaders in Charlotte during a press conference to show support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, July 9, 2013.

Obama making bold move on ENDA protections

Last week, we saw something unusual. Rep. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey announced he would add his name to the list of co-sponsors of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, becoming only the eighth Republican to do so. He brought the new total for the pending legislation, which has already passed the Senate, to 205 co-sponsors – well within striking distance of the support needed to pass the GOP-led chamber.
Except, that won’t happen. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said he will not allow the House to vote up on (sic) down on ENDA, falsely claiming, “People are already protected in the workplace.”
With Republicans refusing to budge, the White House has been under pressure to issue an executive order. As of this afternoon, President Obama is prepared to do exactly that.
President Barack Obama has directed his staff to draft an executive order that would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees of federal contractors, a White House official told The Huffington Post.
The move is the clearest indication to date that the administration is prepared to take action on LGBT rights where Congress has fallen short. Notably, the official would not say whether the president will sign the order into law on Monday – suggesting the White House is leaking the news to warn lawmakers that they have a limited window to pass more sweeping workplace discrimination legislation before he acts without them.
A White House official told the Huffington Post that the president order, which is still being drafted, would “build upon existing protections, which generally prohibit federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
Just as an aside, I’d note that Vice President Biden hinted last month that this might happen, becoming the latest instance in which Biden accidentally telegraphed where the White House was headed.
For those who need a refresher on this debate, under federal law, employers can legally fire employees if they’re gay, or even if they think the employees are gay. Some states prohibit this kind of discrimination, but most don’t.
The proposed remedy has been the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Current law already prohibits job discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, national origin, disability, or genetic information, but ENDA is needed to extend protections to include sexual orientation and sexual identity.
There’s ample evidence that most Americans believe LGBT Americans are already protected against employment discrimination, but those folks are mistaken.
With the House Republican leadership simply unwilling to even hold a vote, and with the odds of a Democratic takeover of the House very low, Obama was left with a choice: allow nothing to happen for the foreseeable future or issue an executive order. If Boehner won’t allow Congress to act, the president appears to prefer the latter.
Remember, however, that the executive order in this area, like a similar move on the minimum, wage, has a limited reach. Obama can’t apply ENDA’s goals to all employers, but he can ban discrimination among employers who do business with the federal government.
That’s a lot of people who are poised to benefit from new workplace protections, but in order to apply these rights to all Americans, Congress will still need to act on ENDA.
Obama will speak tomorrow at the Democratic National Committee’s LGBT gala in New York. I’d expect this topic to come up in his remarks.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 at 9:30 am and is filed under Health & Well Being, Human Rights and Equality, Political Powwow. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

14 Responses to “ENDA For LGBT: Obama’s Got Your Back”

  1. Zen Lill Says:
    June 17th, 2014 at 9:40 am

    Clearly by some of the comments of men here, white women better make it happen on their own, though here as it is in Italy, we have many white women with a big giant ‘good book’ stuck up their buns along with their heads…hopefully they will extract their heads long enough to vote out the idiots that make laws that aren’t helpful to women, bc as that one commenter stated loud and clear yesterday ‘I’m supposed to care why?’ (or something like that written by a man, forgot your name and who cares if that’s your attitude anyway…

    Luv, Zen Lill

    *PS white women who read here – go freaking vote for people who will assist the group you belong to and not your religious belief system bc it’s not only about you, and your religious good books, ALL of them were written and edited by men and aimed at THEIR goals, not yours…

  2. Social Butterfly Says:
    June 17th, 2014 at 10:26 am

    Recipes #13 yesterday and anyone thinking of making these, skip the “earth balance” shortening in the recipe – that is made with and oil blend that contains GMO canola and GMO soy. Best to use a grass fed organic butter, and keep it real. IMHO.

    AND

    Thank you, Mr. President!!

    /SB

  3. Zen Lill Says:
    June 17th, 2014 at 11:21 am

    lol, thank you /SB I noticed that ingredient and thougt, awwww it sounded so good till just then, no shortening people and I don’t care if ‘Earth Balance’ is on the label, they just dropped a few notches in my mind for making that product available under their brand.

    & just stopped back because I know and love some of the women that are very into their ‘good books’ (Uh, from afar usually, they’re moms of my kids’ friends) and I must say, to me, they seem like they are in psychological distress and really wanting a daddy they can admire/cling to in times of strugs and there are so few of those human dads in this world…so I kinda get it…but it isn’t an excuse to vote against your fellow females, even if you don’t agree with their life choices. There wouldn’t be so many struggling young moms if birth control and abortion was made more available…if men birthed babies 7-Eleven’s would have both services behind the freezer section.

    - ZL

  4. Social Butterfly Says:
    June 17th, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    “Earth Balance Betrays Consumers With False Non-GMO and Organic Claims”

    http://preventdisease.com/news/13/042213_Earth-Balance-Betrays-Consumers-With-False-Non-GMO-and-Organic-Claims.shtml

    Shop smart peeps!

    /SB

  5. Don Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 7:32 am

    Michelle, while some of you may feel this is a good idea by Obama to do for LGBT community what can’t be accomplished by their Congressional representative, I as a gay man don’t think so.

    The reason is it allows those LGBT members who are republican to continue to be hypocrites. They support the republican party right down the line on their discrimination against everyone else including women and OTWs.

    This act by Obama simply allows them to continue with their bullshit ways. I have so many gay friends that continue to brag about being republican. It is disgusting how they belittle Obama and proclaim their “republican” philosophy.

    I know that I will suffer if Obama listens to me, but it is the only way I see that will force my hypocritical brethren to vote their own interest.

  6. Mary Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 7:36 am

    Zen Lill#1, this white woman gets the message loud and clear. The next time I vote republican hell will have frozen over. My husband had plenty of reasons why I should continue to vote republican when I showed him your post. But then as you said that benefits him. I get nothing from the “conservative” principles he claims the party stands for.

  7. Social Butterfly Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 8:48 am

    Be sure to tell all your female friends Mary. There’s strength in numbers at the polls!

    /SB

  8. Lucy Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 8:59 am

    Social Butterfly#2, Thanks for the heads up on that GMO canola ingredient.

  9. Jane Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 9:00 am

    Ditto Social Butterfly#7.

  10. Claude Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 9:07 am

    I have plenty of Log Cabin republican friends that vote color over their own interests. Most of them try to cite “conservative” principles or some other bullshit for being in a party that despises them.

    Talk about financing the ovens sick bigots want to put you in. I’m not sure I go along with Don, but for sure something has to be done to reach these idiots.

  11. Malcom Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 9:09 am

    You gay fucks offend me just for being alive. I vote republican just for that reason.

  12. Rebecca Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Don#5, I have several gay friends who are also staunch republicans. It never occurred to me to look at it from you point of view. What you say does make a whole lot of sense. Why are they republican? All of them are white but they are female as well as male.

  13. Brittany Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 9:14 am

    OMG! Thanks Social Butterfly for the 411 on “Earth Balance.” I religiously bought their products. What a scam!

  14. Owen Says:
    June 18th, 2014 at 9:16 am

    Malcom#11, you have a serious problem. Unfortunately, it is one too many on this planet have.

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