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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Washington, D.C. – As negotiations between House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) reach their final stage, Oregon’s U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and a group of other United States Senators today raised concerns regarding a dangerous provision included in the House-passed NDAA that would roll back critical workplace protections and enable taxpayer-funded discrimination.
In a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, the senators urged the conference committees to strip this provision – known as the Russell Amendment – from the final bill.
“If enacted, [the Russell Amendment] would vastly expand religious exemptions under the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act to allow religiously-affiliated organizations receiving federal funds to engage in discriminatory hiring practices – using taxpayer dollars to harm hardworking Americans who deserve to be protected from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, religious identity, or reproductive and other healthcare decisions,” the senators wrote. “Our government should have no part in funding discrimination. [The Russell Amendment] is at odds with the values and beliefs that continue to advance our great nation.”
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Imagine what America will become after something like this passes. WTF, world.
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Fire an employee who uses birth control or who is pregnant and unmarried;
Fire an employee who marries their same-sex partner; and
Refuse to interview someone because they follow a religious tradition different from the employer.
All these quotes taken from this page.
HERE Scary. We are literally on the edge of irrational pre-1960's state-sanctioned medical McCarthyism. On top of that, what will this do for our internal racial relations on top of our foreign policy? We will become a laughing stock for the planet or worse.
These are the fine folks against it.
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U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Al Franken, D-Minn., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Gary Peters, D-Mich., Tim Kaine, D-Va., Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Christopher Coons, D-Del., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Tom Carper, D-Del., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Jon Tester, D-Mont., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Ben Cardin, D-Md., Tom Udall, D-N.M., Mark Warner, D-Va., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Angus King, I-Maine, and Robert P. Casey, Jr., D-Penn.
You probably want to start speaking to your senators post-haste.
31 Oct 2016, 10:46 am
