Posted on 05/12/2007 4:39:21 AM PDT by Man50D
Following on the heels of an 'anti-discrimination' plan Christians insist would virtually outlaw their religious beliefs comes another proposal – introduced by openly homosexual U.S. Rep. Barney Frank – that requires businesses to give special privileges to "gay" and "transgendered" individuals.
Shari Rendall, director of legislation and public policy for Concerned Women for America, the nation's largest women's public policy group, said H.R. 2015, the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007," would be a disaster.
"This bill would unfairly extend special privileges based upon an individual's changeable sexual behaviors, rather than focusing on immutable, non-behavior characteristics such as skin color or gender. Its passage would both overtly discriminate against and muzzle people of faith. Former Secretary of State Collin Powell put it well when he said, 'Skin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the most profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument,'" Rendall said.
The proposal, from U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., follows H.R. 1592, the House-approved plan that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to a list of valid arguments for allegations of a "hate crime" and allow the federal government to intervene when those occur, or even in order to "prevent" one.
The White House has issued a statement saying the proposal is "unnecessary and constitutionally questionable" and the president's advisers would recommend a veto if it advances to his desk.
The new bill's goals are within the same agenda, critics say.
"According to proponents, this bill merely seeks to insulate people who choose to engage in homosexual behaviors ("sexual orientation") or who suffer from gender confusion ("gender identity") against employment discrimination," said the CWFA station. "But regrettably this legislation would effectively codify and encourage the very thing it purports to prevent – workplace discrimination."
It would apply to any business with 15 or more employees and would declare "it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer … to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to the compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the individual, because of such individual's actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity."
"This bill would force Christian, Jewish or Muslim business owners to hire people who openly choose to engage in homosexual or cross-dressing behaviors despite a sincerely held religious belief that those behaviors are dangerous, sinful and not in keeping with basic morality," added Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for CWFA.
"ENDA would essentially force employers to check their First Amendment protected rights to freedom of religion, speech and association at the workplace door. It's absurd! For instance, female employees would have to endure both systematic sexual harassment and a hostile work environment by being forced to share bathroom facilities with male employees who get their jollies from wearing a dress, high heels and lipstick," Barber said.
"Over the years, the homosexual lobby has done a masterful job of co-opting the language of the genuine civil rights movement in their push for special rights. This bill represents the goose that laid the golden egg for homosexual activist attorneys," he said.
Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth, also suggested voters contact Congress and urge members to reject ENDA "and the insanity of forcing businesses across the nation to accommodate and subsidize gender confusion in the name of 'civil rights.'
"Several giant corporations have already settled on pro-'transgender' bathroom and dress policies – probably the same companies who would subject their employees to biased, pro-homosexual 'diversity' lectures – but can you imagine inflicting these 'transgender' regulations on small and mid-level companies through federal law via ENDA?" LaBarbera asked.
"What female employee wants to share the company restroom with a big-boned man claiming to be 'transitioning' to 'womanhood?' Will companies have to build 'transgender male' and 'transgender female' restrooms?"
He said there are some unsatisfactory exemptions for religious-oriented employers, but secular companies whose owners choose to run their operations on biblical guidelines would have no option.
The law would require companies to allow workers to use the restroom of the sex they "present."
"What about the privacy rights of [a transgender's] female co-workers? Don't they have the right not to feel personally invaded as they go to the restroom at their job?" he asked.
"Of course, the larger goal here – shared by the 'gay' and 'transgender' lobbies – is to change your mind and heart regarding gender-confused conduct. The law is merely a tool in their never-ending quest to overturn America's Judeo-Christian norms regarding family, sex and marriage," he said.
Former White House insider Chuck Colson, in his Breakpoint commentary, called the earlier plan, H.R. 1592, a "Thought Crimes" plan.
"It's called the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. But this bill is not about hate. It's not even about crime. It's about outlawing peaceful speech – speech that asserts that homosexual behavior is morally wrong," he said.
"Some say we need this law to prevent attacks on homosexuals. But we already have laws against assaults on people and property," Colson said. "Moreover, according to the FBI, crimes against homosexuals in the United States have dropped dramatically in recent years. In 2005, out of 863,000 cases of aggravated assault, just 177 cases were crimes of bias against homosexuals…"
He noted, as WND earlier reported, in other locations, such as England, Sweden, Canada, and even Philadelphia, where similar laws have been approved, the "Thought Police" already have prosecuted Christians.
One Philadelphia woman, Arlene Elshinnawy, 75, and grandmother of three, was holding a sign: "Truth is hate to those who hate the truth," before she was hauled off by police officers, according to reports.
Faith2Action has launched a series of ads, which can be viewed at StopHateCrimesNow.com about the concerns.
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Bwahahahahahaha!
F*ck off, Bawney, and all your oughta-be-back-in-the-closet cadre, too.
Bills of this nature have already closed Catholic orphanages in California, when Catholics refused to put kids out for adoption to perverts.
I would immeduately close my business if I was under such a law.
My friend who used to teach school in a Dallas suburb had a male student in elementary who wore dresses and high heels to school. Her lesbian mothers dressed this boy up and taught him to play with dolls and wear makeup. Its a shame.
Kewl....I’ve been dying to bust out in my new 4 inch pumps.
I hope the heels don’t get stuck in the steel grating.
Well, alright! My guys can’t wait to bust out the sequin halters and makeup while setting 10 ton roof top units dangling from a crane 10 stories up. What a relief!
Good grief. If only average citizens were literate and paid attention, idiots like BF would be pimping their butts in some alley instead of working to slouch us toward Sodom and Gamorrah via the United States Congress.
"Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK!"
Special benefits for crossdressers? Such as free medical treatment of high heel-induced shin splints?
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Ah, so if I had a business with 15 people, and I wanted to hire a 16th person, if a homosexual crossdresser came to my office and interviewed along with other people, would I automatically have to hire the crossdresser? This bill is as ridiculous if not moreso than the hate crimes! I don't believe on discriminating gays for basis of work. All I would ask is that they dressed as their God given sex and didn't parade their sin around the work place. But, I do believe I should be able to decline someone if they are not qualified, even if they are homosexual. I also believe I should be able to decline crossdressers and homosexuals parading their sins about if I feel that interferes with my moral views and goals of my company. I wouldn't want my women employees to have to go to the bathroom with a creepy man dressed like a woman. How do we know rapists and perverts wouldn't attempt such a thing to easily target a victim? I don't want to have three restrooms for only two sexes. The Dems have seized control and are destroying moral values as I predicted they would. I hope their taliban like ways get their rears kicked right out of office come 2008! I also hope this and the Hate Crimes bill don't go through!
Sounds like child abuse to me.
The bill in question.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.2015:
I have to say I don’t understand how the White House can take the position that the bill is both redundant and unconstitutional. I would think it could only be one or the other.
I don’t think this kind of special rights exist right now for gays so I don’t think its redundant. There is, however , a religious exemption.
>>SEC. 6. EXEMPTION FOR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
(a) In General- This Act shall not apply to any of the employment practices of a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society which has as its primary purpose religious ritual or worship or the teaching or spreading of religious doctrine or belief.<<
>>”Some say we need this law to prevent attacks on homosexuals. But we already have laws against assaults on people and property,” Colson said. “Moreover, according to the FBI, crimes against homosexuals in the United States have dropped dramatically in recent years. In 2005, out of 863,000 cases of aggravated assault, just 177 cases were crimes of bias against homosexuals…”<<
Some quick statistic checking - there were 817 cases of “hate crime aggravated assault” so those aimed at gays are 22%.
For all “hate crimes”, “sexual orientation hate crime” was about 12.5% in 1995 and 14.2% in 2005.
So the aggravated assault numbers are high in comparison, not low.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/incidentsoffenses.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.htm
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BTTT. And the amount of fake “hate crimes” is rather high.
Pray the Prsident has the good sense to veto this, if it makes it that far.
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