Dem Leader: We're Ready for ENDA

Steny Hoyer voted for DOMA. He isn't a friend of the community. However, his primary challenger, Andrew Gall, is a full-throated supporter of equality on all measures, including marriage. People should support Andrew.

Jose Soto, even though you seem to sound supportive of LGBTs, your language is hateful, uncalled for, and completely reduces your "suggestions" to a mere hateful diatribe. Fag, homo, etc. are very offensive. Would you like it if we referred to you by equally hateful terms often used to describe Hispanics?

While I fully support ENDA and am eager for it's passage, proving GLBT employment discrimination will still be difficult. All an employer has to do to get rid of an "undesirable" employee is to do her/his "homework", trumping up minor disciplinary actions that are individually not worth fighting, until the employer has a seemingly unrelated reason for firing the "undesirable" employee. Tactics usually include selectively enforced violations (such as disciplining one employee for, say, tardiness, while ignoring another employee's commission of the same offense), out and out false accusations that can't be disproved, excessive disiplinary action for relatively minor offenses, etc. No employee is perfect. Paperwork can be manipulated to shift responsibility for offenses or errors. Performance reviews are usually very subjective and depend heavily to entirely on the reviewer's personal opinion of the reviewee. While ENDA will be a great beginning, it is only that.

Well, it's quite unfortunate for those who've contracted AIDS and will sadly die this year. Still, there are those of us who, barring any tradgedy like AIDS or some other disease, accident or disaster, must live our lives. ENDA makes that living so much more secure and easier, especially in Red states and communities. While there are still people dying from AIDS, there are still people being fired, or worse, afraid and unable to come out and live fulfilled lives for fear of losing our livelihood. So I'll support my worst nightmare while you support yours.

Here we go again, the same old game. Homos must be the most stupidest minority that has ever existed. We would rather shell out our money for empty promises of meaningless crumbs instead of helping those of us in the community who die each year alone because of AIDS, no but you damn homos, having your egos massaged by these pathetic lying scumbags is more important for you. You ego-centric fags have no idea when an aids hospice in AZ got closed down because of lack of money. Yet David Mixner and the butterflies of the DNC can raise millions for their martini party friends. What a shame.

I disagree with Devon. I think the most important pending bill is, and always has been, ENDA. And I'm speaking as someone in an 18-year relationship. I'd rather have my livlihood protected first, especially since that's more realistically attainable. While I hate being denied marriage rights that straight people take for granted, it is possible to at least protect ourselves on some fronts now. Every time I see a story about a partner being turned out of a home after a death, or being cut off from the children they've raised with their partner, part of me sympathizes, and part of me thinks "duh, where's the paperwork, genius?" So ENDA first, you need money to fight for those marriage rights!

The Domestic Partners Benefit bill is separate and unequal. The Democrats MUST attach full repeal of DOMA and DADT as well as ENDA, The Dignity for all Students Act, and Uniting American Families Act to the military budget now. Once the Republicans control Congress after November we are doomed!!!

I'm concerned about the lack of news about the Domestic Partner Benefit and Obligation act. Its been passed by committees in both the house and senate. Maybe no news is good news but it seems that this bill should be voted on first.