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Well, the quasi-socialists liberals running our government continue to me amaze me with their brazen agenda.

What is ENDA? ENDA is the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that is being moved through Congress. So it sounds like a nice thing, right? Isn’t it a good thing that there isn’t any discrimination in the work place? Yes, it is, but it’s already been done. There’s already a law that prevents that. In fact there are several laws that prevent employers (most of them, anyway) from discriminating in the workplace based on an employee’s race, nationality, color, or creed. Check out http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

So why do we need another one? Well the liberals think that people should not be discriminated againt based on their sexual orientatation and preferences.

Why is this bad?

According to the American Family Association:

It [ENDA] would grant special consideration on the basis of “sexual orientation” that would not be extended to other employees in the workplace.

ENDA violates employers’ and employees’ Constitutional freedoms of religion, speech and association. The proposed legislation would prohibit employers from taking their deeply held beliefs into account when making personnel decisions. This would pose an unprecedented intrusion by the federal government into people’s lives.

ENDA would approvingly bring private behavior considered immoral by many into the public square. By declaring that all sexual preferences are equally valid, ENDA would change national policy supporting marriage and family.

It’s obvious that the real agenda behind the innocuously named Employment Non-Discrimination Act is a push to enshrine homosexuality in national policy. This dangerous legislation would dramatically expand the government’s reach into your work place and create unnecessary work-place conflicts and lawsuits. ENDA is a sweeping employer mandate to create special new legal protections based on “sexual orientation” (or “perceptions”).

Although religious organizations are exempt, I have three main issues with the legilslation:

1. It promotes an unhealthy lifestyle. The gay and lesbian lifestyle should not be a basis for discrimination. Perhaps there is a good reason why most of America disproves of the gay lifestyle? Perhaps they should pass a law that an employer can’t discriminate on the basis of other lifestyle choices? Hm…can you be fired from a meat plant if you’re a vegetarian?

2. It promotes more infringement of the government into the private sector. Another law, with more lawyers looking for cash, more lawsuits, more fees, more forms, more of everything.

3. It will open the door to more discussion and use of sex in workplace politics. If people aren’t talking about sexual orientation in the worklace, there will be few issues related to it. In short, we don’t need this act.

From my AFA-generated letter to my Florida Sentators:

The case has not been made that systemic and widespread discrimination justifies a new legally protected class. Don’t you think that you have a right to work without being subjected to sexual expressions, political agendas and other non-work related conduct? For example, as employers prepare to comply with the legislation and guard against frivolous claims, employees will be trained to be more “sensitive” to gay and lesbian co-workers and pressured to embrace and promote all values, even those that violate their own religious or personal convictions.

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1. No number lock key. There’s no key labeled Num Lock. I found this post and it cleared that up for me.
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