Left In San Francisco wants you to help remarry the recently divorced ENDA and GENDA, which effectively excludes trannies from discrimination legislation:
We need your help. Without you, we cannot prevail. Will you be on the right side of history with us? Join us Monday morning at a vigil at Pelosi’s [SF] office at 8AM. It will be a 24 hour vigil so you can stop by at any point but for sure join us at 8AM before you go to work.
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The vote is Tuesday in the Labor Committee so act now to stop this divisive tactic.
Ya hear that, Pelosi? The gays are coming for you! Too bad we’re sure you won’t be listening…
ProfessorVP
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can’t even stop funding the illegal, immoral Iraq fiasco that 70% of the public are against. You expect action on LBGT rights?
dc-20008
This is bogus. Let the trannies get their own legislation.
Bill Perdue
DC-20008 your comments about the Democrats betrayal of the ENDA bill are typical of the right wing of our movement . You’re probably a Democrat or a Republican but what most of don’t get is how party loyalty, it that’s what at stake here, is more important than loyalty to the GLBT communities.
Beyond that, the ENDA is not attached to the war appropriations bill. That’s the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes bill. The Democrats put it there hoping it’ll get cut in the House/Senate conference or vetoed by Bush. Then they can say “We tried. Really we did. But our hands are tied.”
That was a very slick maneuver, almost Clintonesque in its sliminess. They vote for a war funding bill they pledged to oppose in during the 2006 elections AND nobody notices because the hate crimes bill is attached as rider AND they set up the hate crimes bill for a fall AND they claim they did their best AND they’re off the hook with the bigots.
Ouch! No KY or Vaseline for us in all this.
Graywolf48
Pelosi and Reid are two of the most inept, ineffective and cowardly leaders the Congress has produced in many years.
I was once told that to Republican politicians, “a nigger is a black man who has left the room.” To Democratic politicians, a faggot is a homosexual who has left the room.
I know the Republicans hate me and will do all they can to make my life miserable and deny me equality. They’re open and honest about it. The Democrats not much better. Democrats lie to me and then disappoint me constantly, then lie that they “tried” when in fact they have neither the political courage nor the honesty to be true to their word. A pox on both their houses.
If African-Americans had depended upon this Democratic leadership for their civil rights, they’d still be riding the back of the bus and definitely not marrying white folk. The Democrats are not making us ride the back of the bus, far worse, they are far too willing to throw us under it, after they have picked our pocket.
Mrs Patrick Campbell
We often wondered what could be the cause of Nancy’s Pelosi’s perpetual ‘startled’ look: bad eye job/forhead lift? butt-plug? excess botox? what do you think?
ProfessorVP
Mrs. Campbell, to answer your question… Several years ago, somebody told Pelosi, “Nancy Reagan and Merv Griffin are doing it. That’s right, you heard me. DOING IT!” The startled Pelosi look then began, and cannot be sandblasted off.