{"id":39560,"date":"2013-11-04T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/hardly-shocking-news-on-enda.html"},"modified":"2013-11-04T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:25:40","slug":"hardly-shocking-news-on-enda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/hardly-shocking-news-on-enda.html","title":{"rendered":"Hardly shocking news on ENDA"},"content":{"rendered":"
Did anyone actually expect John Boehner or the House GOP to support a law that prohibits, as federal law, discrimination against gays?<\/p>\n

What's only noteworthy is that it comes as the Senate seems to be solidifying to be able to bypass a threatened GOP filibuster there and pass the law. \u00a0If Boehner can provide cover for any Senators to not vote for cloture or the law itself, that's marginally less political pressure on the House and the Republicans about the matter.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I think the House GOP would be more than happy to, if it had the opportunity, roll back the Civil Rights Act and remove such protection for women and racial\/ethnic minorities, too. \u00a0I mean, such a burden they place on businesses, and surely there's also "growing cultural acceptance" of women and blacks, etc., in the workplace.<\/p>\n

I hope the Senate makes a positive statement here by passing ENDA, despite Boehner's comments, and makes the GOP\u00a0actually act<\/i> to kill it.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Ito<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Financial burden??<\/p>\n

Huffington Post:<\/p>\n

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) affirmed on Monday morning that he would oppose a law that would prohibit discrimination against gay and lesbian workers in the workplace, citing the possibility that it would put a financial burden on businesses.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Boehner Puts An Axe Into ENDA<\/a><\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did anyone actually expect John Boehner or the House GOP to support a law that prohibits, as federal law, discrimination against gays? What's only noteworthy is that it comes as the Senate seems to be solidifying to be able to bypass a threatened GOP filibuster there and pass the law. \u00a0If Boehner can provide cover … Continue reading “Hardly shocking news on ENDA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/who-is-the-leader-of-the-republican-party.html","url_meta":{"origin":39560,"position":0},"title":"Who is the leader of the Republican Party?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Nov-13 12:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My immediate reaction to Cruz in the role\u00a0was \"Good Lord.\"But then I looked at the article, and that headline is just plain wrong. 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