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Article: Let markets, not laws, correct irrational hiring. (opposition to the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994) (Symposium) (Column)
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- Insight on the News
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- September 12, 1994
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The gay-rights movement is waging an all-out offensive against traditional culture, and its program, if enacted, would entail a massive violation of rights -- the rights to property, free association and control of the moral education of one's children.
The movement's latest assault on liberty, the Employment' Non-Discrimination Act of 1994, or ENDA, prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, is founded on three myths promulgated by the gay lobby -- three false premises that almost never are challenged. Underlying this mythology is the dubious notion that gays are a powerless and victimized minority -- a posture of passivity belied ...