ENDA – Another Bad Idea

EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 2007. 

On Friday I was asked to comment on this bill, I couldn’t sleep last night thinking about how this bill needed to be responded to.  Wanting to be politically correct and not alienating the extreme left or the extreme right.   

The reality is, is that this bill is wrong on a variety of fronts.   The least of which is government forcing businesses to overlook the fact that potential employees can now come right out and dress as a women, when they are men and dress as a man, when they are women and the employer or potential employer can’t laugh them out of the office and tell them to come back when they want to take the job seriously. 

The fact that my opponent, Jim Cooper,  voted for this tells me number one he doesn’t know his constituency.  Yes there may be a small minority of people in the 5^th District that dress up like the opposite sex because it makes them feel sexy.  The majority of us, however think the people that do that are starved for attention and either are going to a Halloween party or are playing some part in some Hollywood movie being shot in the district. 

The other thing that this bill says to me is – Don’t they have anything better in Washington to do, oh like end the war on terror, stop proliferation of nuclear weapons, solve the illegal immigration debacle, fix taxation in America, fix social security, fix healthcare dilemma, fix education, end hunger in America, end homelessness in America. It occurs to me that political professionals create issues just to keep us off guard and get us talking about things that appear nonsensical.  The reality is they are and it would not be so scary if they were not altering the very fabric of our culture.  This bill and other bills that say its ok to accept the left and right fringe are compromising America.  Listen the great thing is that we are an accepting country, that comes from our biblical up bringing, that comes from the fact that our nation was founded on sound Christian values.  Hate the sin, but love the sinner.  Love the sinner does not mean we have to make their sin mainstream.  We don’t, in fact we don’t even have to condone it.  It is ok to disagree with the extremes (left and right) as long as we do it agreeably.   

It’s time to take back our government, it’s time to put Honesty, Integrity and Meaning back in government.  It’s time to stop stupidity and mainstreaming of America, if we were in the mainstream we would be Europe or Asia, we are the leaders, now lets get back to acting like it.  And if you are a man and want to dress like a women, do it in the privacy of your own home, you are a freak and I don’t want to see you.  Finally, don’t come to me for a job, because it tells me you have a few issues, some of which I don’t understand and frankly don’t have time to.  Furthermore, forget about getting government funding for you to go to a psychologist to figure out why you like pantyhose.  We don’t care, and we won’t pay taxpayer dollars for you to figure out your lot.  Figure it out yourself.  If you lose the job and can’t pay your bills you will figure out why and get on track, or you will starve.  To make it a LAW that condones this behavior is truly a scary testament to the future of this great nation.  Yes I understand we have to be tolerant, yes we have to accept those different than ourselves, but we don’t have to make them mainstream.  To change a law like this we should first make it a census question.  Ask all of Americans if they feel comfortable have transvestites, in the work place.  Frankly I find it offensive and threatening, now let’s talk about sexual harassment lawsuits.    

Gerard Donovan