Pat Toomey (R-Pa) was among the senators who voted for the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, yesterday, Nov. 7, and the bill that would make it a federal crime to discriminate against employing gays is now before the House.
Hopefully, it dies a quick death. It’s a bad bill. In the current form, the bill does not exempt religious institutions that hold homosexuality to be sinful but even with such an exemption it would still be a bad bill.
Senator, you are a good guy but the only thing anti-discrimination laws do with regard to hiring and firing is to screw things up for the “protected category”.
The source of all anti-discrimination laws regarding employment is the civil rights movement that freed blacks from Jim Crow. Even those, while understandable, were still bad ideas.