ENDA

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is back.  It is the bill  that would allow transgendered teachers into kindergarten classrooms -- and  Senator Bill Harkin (D-Iowa) described ENDA as "No. 1 on my committee priority  and we're going to move it." That sounds more like a threat than a promise, doesn't it? Rather than passing a budget, or decreasing the burden of government on free  enterprise, or alleviating the impact of the $16 trillion national debt on America's  future -- the U.S. Senate, having apparently solved all the other problems in the  world, is now engrossed with the idea that transgenders have the right to teach  your children, granting them protected minority status. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is radical legislation  that hurts kids and forces schools to hire or retain transgendered teachers in every  school district in America -- granting them protected minority status similar to  women and racial minorities.  Unfortunately, there are several instances dotted across America where school  systems have not only tossed aside parental concerns about transgender teachers  making the transition from male to female (or vice versa), they have forced both  parents and students to recognize this transition as normal.  Congressional proponents have cloaked ENDA as a non-controversial civil rights  bill, enjoying the support of several Members of Congress and the American people.   They are wrong. Most Members of Congress have no clue how bad this bill is. Even more have no idea  that ENDA will force schools to hire transgenders as a “protected class” -- much less  what it will do to religious liberty and to children if signed into law.  Children need a stable environment in which to learn -- ENDA deliberately  threatens this.  Take a moment and read TVC's white paper on ENDA and learn more about the threat this poses to our families and our communities. Parents have the sole right to raise their children in an environment of their choosing.   For the federal government to force sexually transgendered individuals into the  classroom is a sign of the moral illness gripping our nation today.  ENDA must be  stopped. TVC will share more on ENDA, and will do everything in our power to stop ENDA  from becoming law. Sincerely, Andrea Lafferty President Traditional Values Coalition