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Article: Civil rights, legislative wrongs.(presidential race)(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2000
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For gay rights activists, the important difference in the presidential race is between two strongly supportive Democrats on one side and the uniformly hostile Republicans--including John McCain--on the other. But while the Al Gore-Bill Bradley split over whether to support a separate antibias bill (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) or to amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act has no electoral relevance, it is crucial legislatively. The wrong choice will make the hard job of passing any bill even harder.
Illogically, some argue that because those of us most active in this fight once backed amending the Civil Rights Act, our support for ENDA is questionable. The ...