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Gay Rights Groups Band Together to Condemn Revised ENDA
The following is from Pride Parenting:
Earlier this week, when more than 90 national and state lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations came together to send a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to “reject substitute legislation that removes transgender protections from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act,” one organization was conspicuously absent: the Human Rights Campaign.
At the time, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) refused to comment on the situation, with President Joe Solmonese saying in a release that news of the altered bill (which was split into two parts late last week, one offering protections for gays, lesbians and bisexuals and the other supporting trangendered people) was “devasting”, but offering no other insight into how the Washington, D.C.-based organization would react.
On Monday night, HRC’s Board of Directors changed all that by voting to reaffirm the 2004 policy supporting a fully inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). According to a statement released on Tuesday, the board’s position articulates a process for continued dialogue with House leaders about strategies that have been put forth to, in the end, achieve passage of a fully inclusive ENDA. Read the entire article here.
