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Opinion: Ending workplace discrimination, with ENDA

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The repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ creates an anomalous situation in which the government holds the military to a higher standard than it does the civilian economy.

That would change with enactment by Congress of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, or ENDA, which would ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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The bill was recently reintroduced.

Given changing attitudes toward homosexuality, this would seem to be a no-brainer. Even opponents of same-sex marriage oppose discrimination. Or do they?

-- Michael McGough

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