House votes to allow federal contractors to fire people for being gay again...

[Blue3]

Here comes the first strike on reversing gay rights gained under President Obama...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-workplace-discrimination-ndaa_us_573cd273e4b0aee7b8e8e176


Hopefully the Senate can torpedo it.

[Kingpoleon]

Federal contractors aren't private business owners making decisions that only concern their company. While I support this for private businesses, federal contractors are a completely different thing.

[Confused Democrat]

Federal contractors aren't private business owners making decisions that only concern their company. While I support this for private businesses, federal contractors are a completely different thing.

Ew. Am I reading this right or am I misinterpreting your comment?

You support the right for private business owners to fire people based on their sexual orientation?

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Hoping the dems filibuster this. A religious exemption for employment is only merited for those businesses that specifically deal with religion.

[Mike88]

AHAHAHAHAHA....But seriously, they don't have anything else to do, do they???

[Green Line]

Terrible.  Hopefully now that it's coming out, it will be killed.  I believe it will.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

AHAHAHAHAHA....But seriously, they don't have anything else to do, do they???

Pass TPP? Confirm Garland? (Yes I know both of those are pipe dreams, but if they want to actually do something good for the country in their final weeks, well, there you go.)

[Person Man]

Federal contractors aren't private business owners making decisions that only concern their company. While I support this for private businesses, federal contractors are a completely different thing.

Ew. Am I reading this right or am I misinterpreting your comment?

You support the right for private business owners to fire people based on their sexual orientation?

Whose to say that this is just for sexual orientation?

[Mike88]

AHAHAHAHAHA....But seriously, they don't have anything else to do, do they???

Pass TPP? Confirm Garland? (Yes I know both of those are pipe dreams, but if they want to actually do something good for the country in their final weeks, well, there you go.)

Oh please! That requires real work and compromise!! Analysing tons of documents, lots of late nights working and discussion of policies. It's to hard for them.... Poor things...

[publicunofficial]

But guys! Trump didn't talk about social issues!!!!

[Figueira]

Yeah, I hope the Democrats filibuster this and continue to do so as long as needed.

[Figueira]

But guys! Trump didn't talk about social issues!!!!

I've always hated it when people list "doesn't care about social issues" as a positive thing about Republican politicians.

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Careful, they might piss off this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXFZlCY21g

[Zioneer]

Here comes the first strike on reversing gay rights gained under President Obama...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-workplace-discrimination-ndaa_us_573cd273e4b0aee7b8e8e176


Hopefully the Senate can torpedo it.

Is it possible it could be ruled unconstitutional under grounds of equal protection?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Here comes the first strike on reversing gay rights gained under President Obama...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-workplace-discrimination-ndaa_us_573cd273e4b0aee7b8e8e176


Hopefully the Senate can torpedo it.

Is it possible it could be ruled unconstitutional under grounds of equal protection?

No, since it just gives religious organizations the same exemptions they had under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

[publicunofficial]

But guys! Trump didn't talk about social issues!!!!

I've always hated it when people list "doesn't care about social issues" as a positive thing about Republican politicians.

Or think "Doesn't care about social issues" and "Is to the left on social issues" to be the same thing.

[DavidB.]

jfc

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

i hope they fire some of those "gays for trump" fckers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Sir Mohamed]

That’s a text-book definition of bigotry. And unconstitutional. Congress should focus on real problems. Sad!

[Person Man]

I like how only gays are considered endangered by this.

[JA]

Ah, and so the re-legalization of discrimination begins. Of course, they'll declare it's simply about freedom, willfully ignoring or simply using America's long history of cloaking bigotry under the guise of liberty. Anti-LGBTQ discrimination should never be tolerated and can never be justified. We don't want your religious and fear fueled bigotry; take it somewhere else.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

That’s a text-book definition of bigotry. And unconstitutional. Congress should focus on real problems. Sad!

If this amendment is unconstitutional, then so are the sections of the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act that it references.

[Person Man]

That’s a text-book definition of bigotry. And unconstitutional. Congress should focus on real problems. Sad!

If this amendment is unconstitutional, then so are the sections of the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act that it references.

Not neccesarily. There is such thing as suspect classes and the Fourteenth Amendment. Marjorities typically aren't suspect classes and First Amendment issues can be seen as different from Fourteenth Amendment isdues.

[Trapsy]

Careful, they might piss off this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXFZlCY21g

That guy is always pissed off.

[Bojack Horseman]

Ah, and so the re-legalization of discrimination begins. Of course, they'll declare it's simply about freedom, willfully ignoring or simply using America's long history of cloaking bigotry under the guise of liberty. Anti-LGBTQ discrimination should never be tolerated and can never be justified. We don't want your religious and fear fueled bigotry; take it somewhere else.

This is exactly what I'm afraid of. As much as I hate that eczema commercial that says "See me" over and over again, that's really what it boils down to. Am I and people like me really that scary?