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MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts joined the hosts of The Cycle on Thursday are living from Russia where he is web hosting the annual Miss Universe festival. Roberts mentioned that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which prohibits employment discrimination for issues when it comes to gender or sexual orientation, is purely “a BS detector for homophobia.”
Roberts, an openly gay man, joined The Cycle hosts minutes after the Senate overwhelmingly passed ENDA.
“I believe that we have now moved ahead as a country in leaps and bounds,” Roberts mentioned of passage of that anti-discrimination invoice. “It wasn’t that way back that we had main steps in reverse.”
He expressed considerations, alternatively, that the invoice that was handed within the Senate would not get passed the Republican-managed House.
Ari Melber brought up the “combined politics” related to this issue, pronouncing that homosexual marriage rights are, in methods, less controversial than this anti-discrimination invoice.
“Think about what ENDA in reality is,” Roberts stated, “It’s now not so much a unique safety for the LGBT community. It’s basically a BS detector if homophobia.”
“There in reality is not any motive not to have one thing so simple as that in most of our on a regular basis lives now, especially considering we all know the place the White Home stands, we know where the Supreme Court docket stands, and now we’re staring at like a domino impact, state by way of state, marriage equality going thru,” Roberts persisted. “So, it’s most effective a topic of time ahead of this in reality occurs. However I love to think of it as a bit of BS detector for homophobia.”
Opponents of ENDA have mentioned that it does now not correctly give protection to non secular employers from being sued for discriminating against gays, lesbians, and transgendered individuals which might be regarded as a violation of the First Modification. Others have mentioned that the regulation is more likely to encourage quite a lot of prison challenges which will tie up American courts.
Watch the clip beneath by the use of MSNBC:
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