Comments on: Tenn. activists rally for ENDA executive order http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/12/10/tenn-activists-rally-for-enda-executive-order/ the gay community's news source Sat, 25 May 2013 13:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dee Ann Miller http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/12/10/tenn-activists-rally-for-enda-executive-order/#comment-85422 Dee Ann Miller Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:17:02 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=54257#comment-85422 Good for Gray Alexander. It takes moral intelligence for a young man this young to be taking such a bold stand! I'm forwarding this to several people I know in the GLBT community here in Lawrence, KS.

]]> By: brian http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/12/10/tenn-activists-rally-for-enda-executive-order/#comment-85398 brian Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:17:19 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=54257#comment-85398 The Obama administration has thus far withheld issuing an executive order along these lines. Just last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Obama prefers legislation known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because that measure would “provide lasting and comprehensive protections for LGBT people across the country regardless of whether they happen to work for a government contractor.”
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Good for those Tennessee activists! We’re all in their debt.

By refusing to do what it can easily do through an EO to end federal contractor discrimination, the Obama Administration is really sending a de facto ‘back door’ message to Congress which implies something like this…
“Despite what I say publicly to you all about ENDA– that’s really for my LGBT supporters’ consumption. I’m not all that worried about LGBT workplace discrimination and ENDA passage.”

The Prez and Carney just aren’t credible on this.

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