Spineless Senate Democrats ditch hate crimes legislation
The hate crimes measure, which passed the House earlier this year, has been stripped from the National Defense Reauthorization Act in the Senate.
What can you expect when the major lobbying group behind it, the Human Rights Campaign, has already proven themselves to be untrustworthy when it comes to supporting LGBT people's causes, and unwilling to put up any fight at all for equal rights? By supporting the deletion of gender identity protection from ENDA, by failing to stand up for the principles they claim to believe in, they've demonstrated that LGBT causes can easily be discarded with impunity. Comments at Pam's express feelings, shared by many of us, of exasperation at "this religiously obsessed redneck backwater nation of ignorant bible thumpers."
More choice comments:
"Dems have seen that we won't stand up for ourselves and our community.
When the "leadership" provided by our major lobbying group involves breaking commitments it's already made, backtracking on principles that had already been established by the community, conspiring with Dems to steal our money for the sole purpose of perpetuating their political existence, cowering in fear based on what's sold to us all by know-nothing media windbags as "what's realistic", and then allowing the bottom to drop out of even that pathetic goal with all the resistance of a wet noodle--this is the natural result."
"It has been said that 'Well behaved women never make history.' Well, we behaved... It was never political good sense, ENDA and the Hate Crimes Bill are both dead, as some LGBT activists have been predicting for weeks."
"We need more than the original ENDA. Beyond the purely trans issues, the community as a whole needs to demand, and demand loudly equal rights, and by that I mean complete equality with straights and demand it now. We must never again settle for less."
Feeling betrayed again. :(
What can you expect when the major lobbying group behind it, the Human Rights Campaign, has already proven themselves to be untrustworthy when it comes to supporting LGBT people's causes, and unwilling to put up any fight at all for equal rights? By supporting the deletion of gender identity protection from ENDA, by failing to stand up for the principles they claim to believe in, they've demonstrated that LGBT causes can easily be discarded with impunity. Comments at Pam's express feelings, shared by many of us, of exasperation at "this religiously obsessed redneck backwater nation of ignorant bible thumpers."
More choice comments:
"Dems have seen that we won't stand up for ourselves and our community.
When the "leadership" provided by our major lobbying group involves breaking commitments it's already made, backtracking on principles that had already been established by the community, conspiring with Dems to steal our money for the sole purpose of perpetuating their political existence, cowering in fear based on what's sold to us all by know-nothing media windbags as "what's realistic", and then allowing the bottom to drop out of even that pathetic goal with all the resistance of a wet noodle--this is the natural result."
"It has been said that 'Well behaved women never make history.' Well, we behaved... It was never political good sense, ENDA and the Hate Crimes Bill are both dead, as some LGBT activists have been predicting for weeks."
"We need more than the original ENDA. Beyond the purely trans issues, the community as a whole needs to demand, and demand loudly equal rights, and by that I mean complete equality with straights and demand it now. We must never again settle for less."
Feeling betrayed again. :(