North Carolina Congressman Robert Pittenger made headlines recently for suggesting that firing people from their jobs solely because they are 同性恋者 is one of the “freedoms we enjoy” as Americans.
Pittenger’s startlingly offensive remarks came as supporters of a federal employment non-discrimination act that would protect 同性恋者 workers on the job are trying to force a vote on the proposal in the U.S. House.
皮滕格（Pittenger）在市政厅事件发生后首先向一位国家记者发表了评论，夏洛特观察家报道说，他在与报纸编辑委员会的会议上支持他们。他说，聘用和解雇的决定应留给自由市场和“政府干预”。不是解决内心问题的最佳解决方案。”
心事？在皮滕格（Pittenger）的世界观中，歧视显然应该留给雇主的情绪和偏见。 《观察家报》还报道，当被问及是否应允许雇主因非裔美国人开除某人时，皮特恩格没有直接回应。
对于国会议员来说，这也可能是一个内心的问题。猜想我们应该废除1964年《民权法案》。
皮滕格当然并不孤单。罗利的共和党领袖，如众议院议长汤姆·提利斯和参议院议长菲尔·伯杰，似乎都同意他的观点。
参议员乔什·斯坦（Josh Stein）在本届会议上介绍了立法，以禁止对LGBT工人的就业歧视。众议院的四名成员在众议院提出了一项陪伴法案。
Neither proposal even received a hearing in the House or Senate, much less a vote. That means 同性恋者 and lesbian workers in North Carolina, who most likely will soon be able to get married thanks to the federal courts, might want to think twice about putting a picture of their spouse on their desk at work.
取决于老板的“内心”，这可能是可燃的罪行。
在文明社会中根本不应该这样，在21个州中，禁止对LGBT工人的就业歧视。奥巴马总统最近发布了一项行政命令，禁止联邦政府和接受政府合同的公司中的就业歧视。对他有好处。
But in North Carolina, there are no such protections, thanks to Tillis and Berger and legislators like Rep. Paul Stam, who just a few months ago passed out a document on the House floor listing pedophilia, necrophilia and bestiality as “sexual orientations” during a debate about banning charter schools from discriminating against 同性恋者 students.
Lawmakers ultimately passed a charter school bill that did not include the anti-discrimination protections. And it was just a few years ago during the debate over the marriage discrimination amendment that Stam and many of his colleagues stood at rallies beside homophobic zealots who said 同性恋者 people are an abomination and are going to hell. What’s in their hearts?
州长Pat McCrory支持婚姻歧视修正案，但在就业歧视问题上一直保持沉默。有人应该问他站在那里。
该观察员援引皮尤研究中心去年的一项调查发现，超过五分之一的同性恋，双性恋和变性者表示，他们在雇用，薪酬或晋升方面受到雇主的不公平对待。
众议员皮滕格（Pittenger），这不是事。这是北卡罗来纳州人目前因其身份和所爱而被剥夺基本公民权利的问题。
这让我想到很多事情，但是自由并不是其中之一。
