The Senate passed the “Employee Non-Discrimination Act” which purportedly bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and “gender identity.”
The ironic thing is that the so-called “Employee Non-Discrimination Act” is itself a paragon of discrimination. It requires people, as a condition of running a business with employees, to suspend their inalienable rights to freedom of speech and of religion. It destroys the ability of private parties to make their own moral judgements:
“While the government must respect equality before the law, private actors should be free to make reasonable judgments and distinctions—including reasonable moral judgments and distinctions—in their economic activities. Citizens should be free to live their professional lives according to their moral and religious beliefs.”
Unlike race, sexual preference/orientation is, by definition, linked to actions. If this were just a proposed law that bans discrimination against someone for being gay, that would be one thing. The problem is that it enshrines the choice to engage in sexual acts as being protected to the point where you can effectively force acceptance on others. Further, that choice is hardly objective: “It would impose liability on employers for alleged ‘discrimination’ based not on objective employee traits, but on subjective and unverifiable identities.” Further, the definitions ENDA uses are nebulous:
