This week the House passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). It doesn't make you kiss other girls or break up your marriage. It stipulates that when you go to work, you will be judged on your work. (Revolutionary, right?)
Rep. Frank: “...Mr. Speaker, we say here that we don’t take things personally, and usually that’s true. Members, Mr. Speaker, will have to forgive me — I take it personally. 35 years ago, I filed a bill that tried to get rid of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
As we sit here today, there are millions of Americans in states where this is not the law...But here’s the deal: I used to be someone subject to this prejudice. And through luck, circumstance, I got to be a big shot. I’m now above that prejudice. But I feel an obligation, to 15-year-olds dreading to go to school because of the torments...I feel an obligation to use the status I have been lucky enough to get, to help them.
...I want to ask my colleagues here, Mr. Speaker, on a personal basis, please don’t...send me out of here having failed to help those people.”
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I love how politicians explain everything in detail like we are retarded kindergarteners.
Clinton..."depends on how you define the word alone."
Barney Frank..."...do this promptly. Promptly means speedily..."
Barney Frank on Colbert Report was AWESOME!
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