Nancy Pelosi equates gay rights with Let’s Make A Deal. The Democratic Speaker of the House committed Friday to putting an inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act to a floor vote “as soon as the votes to pass the legislation were delivered.” Since those votes don’t exist, however, Pelosi and company are also moving ahead with a gay-only ENDA, which effectively excludes trans people.
Human Rights Campaign celebrated the irrational compromise, saying,
[This] is an unprecedented departure from the usual delays seen in Congress on an issue that will have already been considered by the full House.
That press release begins, “The Human Rights Campaign has collaborated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi”. Forget the Good Germans – we’ve got ourselves the Good Gays.
Queer activist Mara Keisling blasted the deal, telling Gay City News:
The decision has been made that they intend to move ahead. This would be an historic first that they would hold a vote on a piece of civil rights legislation that is not supported by any LGBT or civil rights group [except HRC].
“There is a lot of anger. And a lot of disappointment with HRC… No one has yet been willing to explain why we need to move forward on a bill that has no chance to be passed into law at this time.
Simple: politics, as usual.
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Hearing the protests, HRC released another press release in which it attempts to justify its protracted pussy-footing:
Within hours of this major development towards an inclusive ENDA, vocal critics not involved with internal legislative discussions, wrongly characterized this extension as a means to kill the bill. In fact, the leadership has consistently put forth legislative options to expedite the process to attain a vote on a fully inclusive bill.
Friday’s announcement by Speaker Pelosi not only reaffirms their intentions of a House vote but does so by providing GLBT organizations with the opportunity to continue building support for an inclusive ENDA. A vote on a fully inclusive bill was placed on a fast-track by Speaker Pelosi – how fast the bill travels on that track is in the hands of the entire GLBT community, partnering with our key allies on the Hill, to continue the education process.
Way to give Nancy an out, HRC – not to mention continuing to make yourselves look like the only Washington insiders: “vocal critics not involved with internal legislative discussions”. Again, the Good Gays.
Mrs Patrick Campbell
Reason for Nancy Pelosi’s perpetual ‘startled’ look:
1) Bad eye job/forehead lift?
2) Excess Botox?
3) Butt plug?
ProfessorVP
“You elected Democrats to end WHAT war?”
Leland Frances
One expects as much from anonymous posters who troll, repeat, troll the Net looking for any excuse to bitch and demean, but you, Queerties, can’t you simply disagree with Frank and Pelosi and those who agree with them and not stoop to character assassination? Exhausting such invective against fellow gays and gay allies, what are you going to have left for the Dobsons, Romneys, Bauers, et al.?
Particularly puerile overkill that insults others uninvolved far more than your targets? Or is some mid-op tranny sitting on your face and making you compare them to “Good Germans”? Do you really think the decision to move forward with a bill that does not attempt to include transgenders is the moral equivalent of the deaths of millions of Jews, gays, Gypsies, et al.?
Bill Perdue
Nancy Pelosi is a gaybasher and a homobigot, if we can include in that category rightwing Democratic politicians who get elected because most bigoted Republican voters crossed party lines to vote for her.
She ran a malicious Nixon style dirty tricks campaign against SF Supervisor Harry Britt, repeatedly calling him a gay socialist. In the actual election Britt got most of the Democratic votes but Pelosi won because her gay baiting attracted the wealthier crossover Republican antigay vote. If gay baiting isn’t homobigotry then Pat Robertson and Der Pope are off the hook too and the term is void of meaning. And it ties in with her collaboration with Frank to gut ENDA.
Her net worth of $25 Million makes her the 9th richest member of the House of Greed. Her politics are informed by that wealth. And yes, her wealth disqualifies her from representing GLBT folk, working people, national minorities, people against the war etc.
She’s a right winger who more often than not supports Bush on the war and his plan to expand it into Iran to protect Israel and US oil interests in Iraq. Her political shuffle to the right, one step forward, four or fives step backward, matches that of most Democrats. She voted for a law giving a fetus rights under criminal law, favors cutting social spending to “balance the budgetâ€, opposes the legalization of immigrant workers and supports the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Israeli air attacks on Syria.
Pelosi says that impeachment “Is off the tableâ€. and that “I do not see the connection between torture and impeachment.†She voted for the Paytriot Act and she says we have to “mend, not end†it. She’s as opposed to the Bill of Rights as she is to an ENDA with teeth.
Our problem is that no policymakers in either Party will ever lift a finger to stop her. Almost without exception they’re wealthy and without exception they’re in politics to get wealthy.
We need the union led US Labor Party.