Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Via JMG: ENDA Passes Senate Committee


Andrew Cray has details at Think Progress:
This morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee voted 15-7 to advance the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) with support from Republican Sens. Mark Kirk (IL), Orrin Hatch (UT), and Lisa Murkowski (AK). The bill, now headed for the Senate floor, is considered instrumental in preventing workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and mending the “broken bargain” of unequal treatment of LGBT workers under the law.
UPDATE: The ACLU cheers via press release:
Coming on the heels of the landmark Supreme Court marriage rulings, today's strong, bipartisan vote in favor of expanding workplace non-discrimination protections to include those who are LGBT is yet another sign that the tide has turned," said Ian Thompson, American Civil Liberties Union legislative representative. "Advocates have been working for nearly 40 years to pass these basic protections to ensure that all American workers, who stand side-by-side in the workplace and contribute with equal measure in their jobs, will stand on the same equal footing under the law. In 2013, it is completely unacceptable to force individuals to hide who they are out of fear of losing their livelihood.

Reposted from Joe

Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:

Tricycle Daily Dharma July 10, 2013

No Return

The solution does not lie in ‘returning to nature.’ We cannot return to nature, because we have never left it.
- David Loy, “Healing Ecology”
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