oppose enda in general. now, when the tide is shifting, such that there are now rules requiring nondiscrimination, they're asking for a carve out. as i said, this is not uncommon in terms of moments of social change. be it either in terms of the social rights act. >> you don't think enda is worth passing with the current carveout? >> no. >> that's really something. and the human rights campaign and a whole variety of gay organizations are of that opinion as well? >> exactly. think about it in another context, in terms of the laws we have, the discrimination hiring, based on race or sex, we don't have this religious carveout in that context, why should we say that lesbian and gay people have a lesser status. it's a second class iteration of nondiscrimination. >> thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >>> a little over a year ago, we learned the u.s. government had been spying on americans. >> new details are breaking about widespread government surveillance of americans. late today we learned of a separat

one is there's an easy fix to enda, take the religious exemption out and have the same rule for lgbt discrimination that they have. >> do you think that's viable? >> i do think -- a year ago i think politically it wasn't viable in the congress. i think now we're getting to a point where it is or soon will be. you may remember the arizona bill last february govern brewer was asked to veet to it and she did. it was a bill that would have authorized discrimination against lgbt people by businesses serving the public. that hit a chord and nerve with the country. this is not like massachusetts. >> this is not provincetown. >> governor brewer, sued more times than i can count, she does the right thing here and says, you know what, that's not what america is about. >> in large part because of national public outcry -- >> precisely, i think that national public outcry is what is different about the religious exemption issue this year opposed to last year. >> i think you may indeed be right, given the fact it's ironic that the doma signed by a democrat being president, both not the religious

. >>> and enda. the employment nondiscrimination act. it's been making the rounds in congress for decades now. still hasn't been passed. some of the backers say they now want to pull their support. we'll talk to enda's early sponsor, former congressman barney frank. >>> and the flipped classroom. a new teaching method is turning the traditional classroom on its head. that is today's big idea. >>> good afternoon to you all. i'm t.j. holmes in today for mr. craig melvin. we're going to start with a developing story. the united nations security council just a short while ago called for an end to the violence between israel and palestinians in gaza. take a quick listen. >> the security council members called for de-escalation of the situation, and the november 25 cease-fire. >> that call comes as the crisis goes more intense. with new strikes hitting gaza today. the gaza health ministry reports that more than 120 people have been killed there over the past month. israeli authorities report hamas forces in gaza have fired more than 700 rocket

if there's an exemption in enda for them, why would you call that a double standard?has heard these battles and worked this through 50 years ago. that got the balance right. what the civil rights act says is truly religious entities may discriminate on the basis of religion, but not on the basis of other things. they can't fire the janitor because the janitor's black. they can't fire a teacher simply because she's a woman, et cetera. so what this current version of enda did was jettison that balance and come up with a new religious exemption that would have given permission to a broad range of organizations that invoked religious identity to simply discriminate against gay people across the board. in other words, it denied the protection the law itself was intended to enforce. that was a new standard, a wrong standard. time to put that one aside and get back to the civil rights act of 1964. >> the reason that enda exists or is trying to exist is because gay and lesbian people are excluded basically from the laws that say you can't fire people because dot, dot, dot. >>

i'm not against her for enda and particularly through referendum if you sort of pos part of your serenity to institutions. let's say and in brussels then i think it's up to the people to decide but in this oh sation agreement there is nothing taken away from those countries on the contrary and the game you know i have difficulties. sort of to compare not only those two baskets neighborhood and lunch money but also the internal conflict within the borders really recognize and a good neighbor relations and by the way when it comes to the good neighbor elations most of our georgia and ukraine we are very consistent and make it clear that we expect. the continuation of the traditionally very good relationship was a russian federation of the neighbors mr fuller but isn't that also the case that ukrainian case is very unique in the sense that it has actually you know usually has as we said countries are expected to solo sort out their territorial issues before they actually signed the association agreement now in the case of ukraine that agreement itself proved to be the cause of the conflict i

now back to enda, and this is what the senate can pass.the choice is do we go for this or should we -- i have a plan. i'm not going to tell you right now, but i have a plan on this because this is really very important to me and it always has been. i can't even believe that it should even be necessary to have -- to still need such a bill, but it is, and in states where it exists, it has not had any of the consequences that speaker boehner said, job killer, whatever, this, that, and the other thing. no, it has worked very well. we want it to be a national law, and so we're going to carefully review what the options are. they could include do we want to give up on this because we have some republican co-sponsors on a bill, overwhelming sponsorship among the house democrats. we have an opportunity there. or we can go to a place where we might not have republican co-sponsors without the clause. i don't even know how to characterize it because i don't agree with it, but nonetheless, we could go to that place and be starting at an earlier place

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we should also point out that the senate actually passed enda back in -- what year was that?last year, in november. >> last year. time flies. real fast. we're running out of time. justin, you're there in the white house. can you tell us the reaction of folks in the white house to the gay groups saying we're not supporting enda anymore, don't broaden religious exemptions any further? >> it's an interesting situation for them because the president has come under fire from religious groups saying that he is anti-religious freedom. so if he doesn't put this religious exemption in this executive order, that's just going to draw fire. i think they also understand that this is a very precarious situation, and you are dealing with taxpayer dollars. at the same time when you're dealing with something like the employment non-discrimination act, you have to have republicans support that. at the end of the day, this religious exemption has been key to republican support. >> my thanks to evan wilson from the organization freedom to marry. thanks so much for coming on. >> the rake ben grou

. >>> and enda. the employment nondiscrimination act. been passed. some of the backers say they now want to pull their support. we'll talk to enda's early sponsor, former congressman barney frank. >>> and the flipped classroom. a new teaching method is turning the traditional classroom on its head. that is today's big idea. >>> good afternoon to you all. i'm t.j. holmes inay

i was also reminded when this whole thing -- this story broke, when they had enda come out and the questiontection so people don't get fired because they're gay, john boehner said he didn't want to support that, because he thought it would create frivolous lawsuits. it is clearly a type of complaint we only hear at certain times. if you want a prediction here, i don't make a lot of predictions about the court, but i don't think speaker boehner's stunt political lawsuit will be successful. that's one prediction. stick around the rapid response panel is next. with your cnbc market wrap. the dow fell 44 points but remains above the 17,000 mark. the s&p 500 is off 7. the nasdaq composite shed 34. investors were reluctant to place bets ahead of earnings season. it kicks off with alcoa reporting results and aaa says gas prices have fallen to 3.65 a gallon. worries about iraq have started to ease and oil prices are moving lower. that is it. back to "hardball" after this. ♪ during the cadillac summer's best event, lease this 2014 ats for around $299 a month and make this the summer of style. ♪ but