Maine's Collins "Grateful" For Pro-Homosexual Endorsement
By Staff
May 2, 2008 - 10:04:42 AM
HRC Nod Due In Part to GOP Senator's Pro-Transgendered Office Policies
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| U.S. Sen. Susan Collins |
The radical pro-homosexual, pro-transgendered Human Rights Campaign announced its endorsement of U.S. Senator Susan Collins for re-election on April 28, a development that garnered very little media coverage within Maine. Collins, a Republican, is opposed by Democrat Congressman Tom Allen for the Senate seat.
The weekly Portland (ME) Phoenix reported on the endorsement on April 29, in an article entitled "Interesting Endorsement in Collins-Allen Race." The Human Rights Campaign is "one of the most influential national organizations working to advance/protect the rights of GLBT [Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered] people" according to the article's writer, Deirdre Fulton.
According to the article, both Sen. Collins and the HRC responded with comment on the endorsement: Sen. Collins said, "I am grateful to have the endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign..."
League director Mike Heath said he couldn't imagine anyone being grateful for such an endorsement. "It will never be right to be inclusive with immorality. Sex outside of marriage is always wrong, I don't care what words you use to describe it."
Brad Luna, HRC Spokesman said (emphasis added), "Sen. Susan Collins is a strong ally for the GLBT [Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered] community, supporting a fully inclusive [federal] employment protection bill, a fully inclusive [federal] hate crimes bill, and funding for critical HIV/AIDS programs."
Lisette Fee, Member Services Manager at the HRC, sent out a form email this week further detailing Collins's strong pro-homosexual and pro-transgendered stands as reasons for the HRC's lone U.S. Senate Republican endorsement.
Fee gave a fourth and fifth reason for the endorsement: Collins's own policy on the hiring and promotion of homosexuals, bisexuals, and the transgendered, both in her Washington, D.C. and Maine U.S. Senate offices, and Collins's repeated opposition to the Federal [Traditional] Marriage Amendment.
Fee's email read, in part (with emphasis added):
"I'd like to provide you more information on HRC's PAC Endorsement process and why HRC endorsed Sen. Susan Collins.
"Sen. Susan Collins is a strong ally for the GLBT [Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered] community, supporting a fully inclusive [federal] employment protection bill, a fully inclusive [federal] hate crimes bill, and [federal] funding for critical HIV/AIDS programs.
"Sen. Susan Collins has always opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment and has been public with her opposition. She voted against amending the Constitution on July 14, 2004, and again on June 7, 2006. Amending the constitution may end up being the only way to preserve marriage in the U.S.A.
"Sen. Collins supports a federal law to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
"In 2002, Susan Collins cosponsored of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would add the category of sexual orientation to protections in federal employment law.
"Collins [has] stated [in 2002]: 'By enacting a federal gay rights law, I believe we can not only prevent discrimination but also, I hope, promote acceptance of the principles of tolerance and fairness embodied by this bill…'
"A supporter of a strong hate crimes prevention measure, Sen. Collins is an original cosponsor of this year's Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (S. 1105) and has been a cosponsor of nearly identical measures in prior Congresses. Each time it has been in front of the Senate for a full vote, she has voted for it (2000 and 2004)... The Matthew Shepard Act would add the categories of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, gender, and disability to existing law.
"In 2004, when she served as Chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. Collins wrote a letter to Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, urging him to reinstitute the Office of Special Counsel's policy against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the federal workplace.
"In her own offices in DC and Maine, Sen. Collins has a policy to not discriminate in the hiring, promotion, and termination of employees, based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression."
Senator Susan Collins is one of America's most devoted pro-homosexual leaders pushing the most extreme elements of this anti-family agenda. While many Republicans complain about her views, the party -- which is meeting today in Augusta -- will enthusiastically back the veteran politician.
Collins is to the left of many Democrats on this issue.
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