Anti-employer ENDA still alive and kicking

[Confederate Kahanist]

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1113918



Russ Jones - OneNewsNow - 8/6/2010 6:45:00

A Washington, DC-based pro-family group is voicing its concern about a continued push by liberals in Congress to give homosexuals a special status in employment discrimination laws.

 

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) seeks to ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Should it become law, the legislation would grant special protections for homosexuals and cross-dressers equivalent to those granted to African Americans in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 
Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies of the Family Research Council, says there is no valid comparison between protecting the rights of a particular ethnic group -- whose characteristics are inborn like someone's skin color -- and choosing voluntary behavior like that of a homosexual.
 
Peter Sprigg (FRC)"[ENDA] interferes with the freedom of an employer to make their own decisions about what the standards for employment should be," Sprigg explains. "It could mandate the employment of homosexuals and transgendered people in occupations that many people would consider inappropriate, such as working with small children or as teachers."
 
Under ENDA, the federal government theoretically could punish a business or church with litigation for opting not to hire a homosexual applicant or someone choosing to deny their God-given gender.
 
"The gender-identity part in particular really eliminates the right of employers to set dress and grooming standards for their employees," says the FRC fellow, "because the most fundamental dress and grooming standard is that you dress in the way that's culturally appropriate for your biological sex."
 
This is the eighth attempt to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. All previous attempts have failed.