now. there are a number of democrats, people on the left, organizations who are not happy with those religious protections and so what we re saying is log cabin republicans is if you support religious liberty, you need to support this version of the employment nondiscrimination act because it protects the liberties. if the democrats pass this bill as they would like to, they would run roughshod over the religious liberties. you believe take for instance, the proposed toomey the portman amendment, and the toomey amendment, you think they should be allowed to do that, to say we don t want to hire gay people? we were not supporters of the toomey amendment for the fact that we believe that the religious protections that exist right now in the bill are the cleanest and they re also the strongest. the religious protections extend the same exemptions that exist for any religious organization covered under title seven of the civil rights act to any
had a child who was diabetic. so the personal experience it does fare and inform. i ll put you on the spot like i put gregory on the spot, do you think in this congress that enda is going to end up passing? i think it is a long shot. but talking about the personal experiences, what i think you re going to see is lgbt advocates taking this back to the home states of those lawmakers who don t yet support it and trying to personalize it. bringing out someone who served openly in the military as gay or lesbian and being, like, look, they served openly but now that they re a civilian, they have to go back in the closet because they re worried they re going to be fired because they live in a state without these protections. i think that in part was why don t ask, don t tell repeal was so successful. because you saw these patriots who had served and who weren t able to do so openly tell their stories, and that s what they re going to be doing, going forward to try to make it hit home mo
to mind to legislation like enda? well, you know, first, a couple of things come to mind regarding the marriage issue. you say the numbers are low for republican support for civil marriage for same sex couples, the numbers are growing. the fact is also that there is considerably more support for civil marriage for same sex couples among republican millennials. there is definitely a generation gap there. also, i will say that my discussions, whether it is about civil marriage for committed same sex couples with republicans or the employment nondiscrimination act, the fact that religious liberty is something that comes up repeatedly among republicans. when it comes to the marriage discussion, i m out there front and center, pointing out the difference between civil marriage, a piece of paper you get from the government that says you re married in the eyes of the law, and then holy matrimony, the sacrament that occurs in the church, between two people and their priests and god. we re fi
is a solid chance that you will have house leadership allow their members to vote their conscience on this issue. has to be that pressure from within and from without. bottom line then, do you expect in this congress enda will pass the house of representatives? we have all options on the table right now. there are various means that we could pursue in order to see passage. we re just continuing to view the lobbying we have always done and i m hopeful. i m no pollyanna, but i see there is a possibility for passage. anyone that did not enter this lobbying fight thinking that we need to focus on the senate and the house shouldn t be lobbying for this bill in the first place. long bottom line. thank you, appreciate it. greg angelo, thank you. there are seniors who have left hundreds of dollars of savings on the table by not choosing the right medicare d plan. no one could have left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors who compare medicare d plans realize they can save
and orrin hatch is a prominent mormon and the mormon religion is not apparently not as aggressive against this as they were against gay rights in california pretty recently. i think religious organizations are, if not becoming actively for enda, you know, they re neutral. i think the pieces are in place. i look at this, in my lifetime, this seems to have happened with the speed of light, i recognize that people who are, you know, directly and intimately associated with this issue feel like it has taken forever. if you date the beginnings to the abza and koch proposal, and then look at the suffrage movement which started in 1872, women got the right to vote in 1920, it takes 40 or 50 years in this country for these kind of changes to happen, even though it feels very rapid for the last several years. one of those things you step back and say, wow, you know, minute to minute, the change isn t there, but in the big picture there are huge changes.