Dear Friend,

Please call your Representatives on the House Education and Labor Committee now!

This week, the House Education and Labor Committee will consider the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).  If this legislation passes, it will mainstream homosexuality and provide homosexual activists a legal tool for punishing employers who do not approve of this lifestyle.

ENDA will force businesses to provide special employment rights and protected minority status to individuals who define themselves based upon sexual behaviors.  Such efforts are a misguided infringement upon our constitutional rights to religious freedom.  This legislation will be used by homosexual activists as a tool to punish business owners that have moral and religious standards.

ENDA would also overturn the historical basis of protected class status by adding homosexuality to civil rights law.  Unlike the currently protected classes of race and age, "sexual orientation" is behavioral.

There was much opposition on both sides of the aisle to ENDA. Hearings on this bill have been postponed several times in order to strike compromises and make the bill “acceptable” enough to garner the votes needed to pass it. It has now been “reworked” and given a new bill number, H.R. 3685. The “compromises” include a weak religious exemption and the removal of “gender identity.”  Nonetheless, this bill is still destructive and puts First Amendment rights at risk. The extremely weak religious exemption, for example, would only apply to a narrowly defined religious-centered business or place of employment but not to an individual business owner, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

This legislation must be stopped! Please call the House Education and Labor Committee at 202-225-3121 and urge them to oppose ENDA.

Sincerely,

Wendy Wright
President

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