Comments on: There’s no substitute for the original ENDA http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Molly Ivors http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-455019 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:27:47 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-455019 Pam, I linked to you and <a href="http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2007/09/illuminate-the-.html" rel="nofollow">posted on this issue here,</a> and am taking a lot of heat from a particular commenter. Perhaps you could help me out? As it happens, I am very close to a young person with gender dysphoria, so this is almost as personal for me as it is for some of the GLB community who have attacked me over it. Pam, I linked to you and posted on this issue here, and am taking a lot of heat from a particular commenter. Perhaps you could help me out?

As it happens, I am very close to a young person with gender dysphoria, so this is almost as personal for me as it is for some of the GLB community who have attacked me over it.

]]> by: Jovan1984 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454936 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:50:16 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454936 I don't accept substitutes for sugar, so I won't accept substitutes for the original ENDA nor will I accept substitutes for the original (1920) ERA. I don’t accept substitutes for sugar, so I won’t accept substitutes for the original ENDA nor will I accept substitutes for the original (1920) ERA.

]]> by: mcc http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454917 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:03:12 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454917 Looks like the backlash made a difference. <a href="http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/10/100107delay.htm" rel="nofollow">The planned ENDA vote tomorrow has been postponed until later this month, to give this all more time to be hashed out...</a> Looks like the backlash made a difference. The planned ENDA vote tomorrow has been postponed until later this month, to give this all more time to be hashed out…

]]> by: tlb http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454795 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:20:30 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454795 I agree. If there is no way that it will become law anyway, then why bother with the stripped-down version? So that they can blame Bush's veto? Bush isn't up for re-election, Congress is. I'd rather get the ones that won't support the full bill on record so that we can work on them. The second bill is unnecessarily divisive amongst the community that it purports to help. It would be understandable if it had a hope of becoming law (and even then I would have misgivings), but when it won't, its just dumb. I love Tammy Baldwin. She's my rep here in Madison. She even lives in my neighborhood, so I get to periodically see her when she's out and about. She's so wonderful. I agree. If there is no way that it will become law anyway, then why bother with the stripped-down version? So that they can blame Bush’s veto? Bush isn’t up for re-election, Congress is. I’d rather get the ones that won’t support the full bill on record so that we can work on them. The second bill is unnecessarily divisive amongst the community that it purports to help. It would be understandable if it had a hope of becoming law (and even then I would have misgivings), but when it won’t, its just dumb.

I love Tammy Baldwin. She’s my rep here in Madison. She even lives in my neighborhood, so I get to periodically see her when she’s out and about. She’s so wonderful.

]]> by: Beth http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454780 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:48:14 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454780 True, knowing that it won't survive a presidential veto, the whole thing is obviously a symbolic gesture. And I don't like the symbolism implicit in stripping away our TG allies. True, knowing that it won’t survive a presidential veto, the whole thing is obviously a symbolic gesture. And I don’t like the symbolism implicit in stripping away our TG allies.

]]> by: Incertus Brian, Nacho Daddy http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454778 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:45:57 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454778 Yeah, that's how I feel about it as well. We're at a place where the bill won't become law until there's a Democratic president anyway. so let's set the precedent where we've got the more inclusive bill passed, making it easier when there's a Democrat in office. Yeah, that’s how I feel about it as well. We’re at a place where the bill won’t become law until there’s a Democratic president anyway. so let’s set the precedent where we’ve got the more inclusive bill passed, making it easier when there’s a Democrat in office.

]]> by: themann1086 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454775 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:43:58 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/01/p6111/#comment-454775 Is there any chance of the watered-down version overriding a Bush veto? No? Then to hell with the right-wing bigots, damn the torpedoes, etc etc. There's no point in spending political capital on a bill that doesn't include gender identity that won't pass. You might as well go whole-hog and push through the full deal! Is there any chance of the watered-down version overriding a Bush veto? No?

Then to hell with the right-wing bigots, damn the torpedoes, etc etc. There’s no point in spending political capital on a bill that doesn’t include gender identity that won’t pass. You might as well go whole-hog and push through the full deal!

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