States whose two senators voted for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico.
States whose two senators voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013:
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and Wyoming.
States whose two senators split:
Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Utah.
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania did not vote. Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) voted against, while Sen. Toomey (R-PA) voted for.
Cowardly Casey.
I thought I read a quote from Casey saying how important he thought this legislation is. Maybe he had to go somewhere after they got it over 60?
I assume he missed to vote for some other reason than evasion.
I’d like to know too. What with his history and all.
Casey’s wife just had major surgery, and he was with her. Dude doesn’t always cut a profile in courage, but it would be silly for him to duck voting for a bill that Toomey voted in favor of.
If anything, I’m surprised it got so many GOP ayes.
There was another vote recently with Murkowski and McCaskill were absent in a vote they should take and they were having travel issues.
Thanks for supplying his reasoning for not voting.
Uhm…
Did I miss something?
Doesn’t the Confederacy hate any and every one who’s NOT a Confederate – or a wannabe?
And women,blacks,Hispanics, liberals………
Yeah, it’s like a Mad Lib. Or a really Mad At Libs… something something.
Basically fill in the blank and chances are it makes sense.
Not the capital of it.
Anyway I would vote for it but I’m getting tired of the professional gay organizations rallying around stuff like this and gay marriage while ignoring a lot of other pressing issues facing gays and poors in particular (such as housing).
Maybe the marriage thing is needed for bringing others into the fold and to be more accepting but I find myself getting annoyed with what is mostly a symbolic victory. Now I’m sure it goes deeper than that (social acceptance and whatnot), but where are the votes to get rid of the “right to work” revolution that began under Reagan, and was obviously intensified by Taft-Hartley? Last I checked you can be fired for whatever reason they like in these at-will states; they know no discrimination against gays, just workers in general.
I’m going to cut the professional LGBT orgs some slack. While I too would appreciate a more political space and oxygen (always in limited supply) for the issues you’ve listed and can see that a disproportionate share has been going to LGBT issues, it’s how the LGBT community has made such dramatic gains. However, as those gains appear to be very solid, they are still provisional and not nationwide. The opportunity to cast them in stone for all and forever is highest once the tipping point has been reached regardless of how annoying it may be to those that view it at a mostly done deal.
Progressive women in this country made a huge political tactical error by over-valuing Roe v. Wade and the ERA as the completion of equal rights instead of what they were: the beginning of the end of the struggle that must continue on for a while more or the place from which to backslide as the dark forces re-organize and beat us back. ERA not ratified. Abortion less available. Mandatory vaginal probes as a gubernatorial campaign issue in VA in 2013! We didn’t learn from our own history that women went home after passage of the 19th Amendment and other than a right to vote, women remained second class citizens.
At least in the short run, single issue organizations are usually more effective than multiple issue orgs. Good thing because single issue orgs also tend to be principally composed of individuals with a vested interest and disintegrate quickly after achieving the goal(s). — heh — look what happened to the anti-war movement in the US when the draft was ended.
It’s not so much the single issue stuff that bugs me, it’s that this is mostly about middle-class to upper-middle class (white) LGBT community, which is what organizations like HRC serve. More to the point, ENDA really does nothing of any actual value beyond symbolism (which is important in itself, don’t misunderstand; plus it does have teeth for serious redresses). Gays (and largely anyone else) can be fired for any reason in any state except for Montana.
In fact, with you mentioning the feminists making the mistakes they made, I see gay organizations (not activists, but orgs like HRC) seeing “marriage” and “ENDA” as the end all be all to gay equality and making the same mistakes.
Understand. The same complaint was waged about the feminist movements – white, middle and upper class. ENDA may be symbolic but we shouldn’t underestimate the value of symbolism.
For true liberal/progressive/egalitarians it’s practically impossible not to step back for a moment to help advance the equal rights of other groups more legally discriminated against. Suffragettes did it 150 years ago for abolition. Then were mostly abandoned by the single issue abolitionists after the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments. Honestly wouldn’t expect many in the LGBT community to behave differently from the abolitionists if their equality were codified in a Constitutional Amendment. But we have to take it with some sort of faith that the more legal rights that the LGBT community gains, that indirectly it will be a gain for all even if only small.
Oh shit, how did I miss this gem in the context of what I just posted:
Mitch-N-Paul: “Sure, we’ll pass ENDA…just attach right-to-work to it. Then it won’t matter anyway. Compromise!”
Hasn’t Lindsey Graham been given a pass for way too long?
So Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, and Wyoming have joined the Confederacy? Somebody wake up Jefferson Davis.
We know that Bob Casey is a coward on a lot of issues.
Boo, your title has an extra word in it. “Gays” is extraneous.
This is the most shocking piece of news I’ve read all morning.
OT, but WTH. Am I wrong in thinking this is really weird?
George W. Bush To Keynote Fundraiser For Messianic Judaism Group
Not alone. I just posted on it.
Aren’t we all humans? Why should we be divided into black/white, gay/straight, women/men, Catholics/Jews etc.? After all, we all come from the same place and we end up in the same place, so why not make the time in between a more pleasant and less discriminating one?
Arguing about how a certain type of sexual orientation or race is better than another won’t get us anything good and the history has proven this to us.
However, to get to the point, unfortunately, it’s going to be a long way to go until the Confederacy will accept the gay community.
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