From the Desk of:
Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

As you know, the pro-homosexual agenda is rapidly advancing under the sympathetic Obama administration.  The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), designated as S.811, is now going to be reconsidered by Harry Reid’s Senate. This radical legislation potentially puts Christians on the wrong side of the law!  Please see my extremely important message below – Mat.   


Conservatives,

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), slated for consideration in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee on June 12, is anti-free speech, anti-religious freedom, and anti-business.

Intended to give special protection to homosexuals and cross-dressers, the bill would further burden small businesses and muzzle those with a biblical worldview.

ENDA addresses an “individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.” In the bill, “gender identity” is defined as “the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, with or without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth.”
 
In other words, if an employer instructed a male employee he could not use the women’s restroom, that employer would be in violation of ENDA.

++This outrageous bill confers “privileged class” status on homosexuals! (US Constitution'EQUAL RIGHTS VIOLATION!)
ENDA states that an employer may not “limit, segregate, or classify the employees or applicants for employment of the employer in any way that would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment or otherwise adversely affect the status of the individual as an employee, because of such individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.”
 
The implications of ENDA are outrageous and shocking. With the many pressing issues facing our country, it is astounding that Senator Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate would waste their time pushing a radical and destructive ideology.

ENDA promotes “sexual orientation” to the same “protected class” status as race, creed, color, or national origin. It also grants cross-dressers and transsexuals the status of being in a protected class.

Under ENDA, every school system, for instance, would be forbidden by law to restrict anyone from openly demonstrating homosexual or transsexual displays…or face severe discrimination charges enforced by the federal government.

++Help Liberty Counsel defend the rights of people of faith!

ENDA is one of the most dangerous pieces of anti-faith, anti-common sense legislation ever to be considered by Congress! The next vote on ENDA could take place as early as June 12th in the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee.

Liberty Counsel is conducting a massive legal and citizen action campaign to fight the pro-homosexual agenda and passage of the ENDA law both nationally and state-by-state.

Our petition calls for Congress to OPPOSE ENDA and stop this travesty from becoming the law of the land!

Please go here right now to sign our petition:

http://www.libertyaction.org/292/petition.asp

Our religious liberties are being threatened by ENDA and our family units are being undermined by the threat of repealing the Defense of Marriage (DOMA) Act.  President Obama’s radical appointees, now assigned to strategic positions of governmental leadership, are aggressively promoting disastrous pro-homosexual changes in American law!

We must stop ENDA in Congress NOW!   

I urge you to sign our petition opposing the anti-faith Employment Non-Discrimination Act.  I am calling on all Liberty Counsel team members to demand that our elected officials oppose ENDA:

http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=104325&CID=292&RID=35659527

Liberty Counsel attorney Matt Barber noted in a Washington Times article that morally and legally, “ENDA will force - under penalty of law - Christian, Jewish or Muslim business owners to adopt a secular-humanist viewpoint, ignoring all matters surrounding sexual morality while making hiring and firing decisions.”

Matt’s article continued, “ENDA would compel business owners with 15 or more employees to leave sincerely held religious beliefs at the workplace door and submit to the demands of the homosexual activist lobby.”

If ENDA passes, Christian-owned, for-profit businesses employing more than 15 people will be forced to accept applications from individuals whose behavior is in violation of the owners’ religious tenets.

++Elevating the threat of ENDA passing.

President Obama has aggressively used his presidential “bully pulpit” to promote homosexuality – refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and now pushing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Chai Feldblum, credited with writing the ENDA legislation, is President Obama’s first openly homosexual commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

At its core, ENDA is an orchestrated effort to break down gender identity in our society.  Make no mistake: ENDA is intended to be the next nail in the coffin of American freedom!

Please join us in telling the Senate in no uncertain terms to “Stop ENDA.”

http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=104326&CID=292&RID=35659527

Thank you for standing with Liberty Counsel in our massive legal and citizen action campaign to defeat ENDA!

God Bless You,

Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

P.S. ENDA is a destructive piece of legislation that will force many employers with deeply-held religious beliefs to submit to a federal law mandating that they hire people whose lifestyles are offensive to them.  Go here now to sign our petition opposing ENDA. Thank you!
http://www.libertyaction.org/r.asp?U=104327&CID=292&RID=35659527