lgb community? insuch we stand up for everyone. we stand up for the community and honor and embrace those that choose to do the same. our features play such a important role for our children and families and i want to thank members of the arch diseize and high sools that came out, even a wild cat, thank you for being out here, but the disconteent and uncertaintyly and confuse the stream of events caused it not only unnecessarily but avoidable and in my opinion unconsciousenable. we can not talk out of both sides of our mouth. honoring our teachers and placing restriction on employment and creating a culture of fear that has no place in our schools right now. the message is coming from pope franceing and the archdiocese cannot be more at odds in the tone and approach and this causes confusion over what the real message of the chunch is and it is what dishardens me as a catholic. it is unfortunate when there is a constant need for par tisitation in everything we need here in san francisco. we need to

these are the people who have gotten us where we are today as a lgb community. it is sometimes easy to forget with all the successs we had in this country in terms of advancing the civil rights of the lgbt community, it waebt that long ago when we were living in a very very different world and the amount of discrimination and arassment and violence themunity had to 234der, but it still exists today, it was dramatically worse. these are people who went to hell and back multiple times through the hiv epidemic and the trials and tribulations of the community. the least we can do for them and make sure as they age they do so as part of the community and with all the respect they deserve. this legislation will put protections in place for seniors living in facilities where they are vulnerable because they rely on others for service squz no long er have the privacy of thaur own home or own room. legislation will make it illegal to discriminate against sexual orientation, gender or hiv status. you may call in 2012, you may not recall, supervisor comps nob nub and i aut

lgb t people are still not covered under the act. in the absence of clear protection, lgbt people may be forced to file a lawsuit, a luxury most cannot afford. the obama administration has taken meaningful steps toward protecting workers from discrimination. i would like to highlight the executive order from 2014 prohibits discrimination in government actions of contractors and subcontractors. this underscores the recognition of governments compelling interest in ending this harmful discrimination. while the government has a clear discrimination in eradicating this, we recognize the interest that has been balanced with religious rights of employers. given this history, religious employers benefit from apple exemptions from federal nondiscrimination provisions. title vii provides strong protections for religious organizations, including hiring and firing. the ministerial exemption examined by the supreme court exempts religious employers from discrimination prohibition when making employment decisions involving ministerial staff. this

we can kind of have this annual, basically the way the lgb. the community, we want women to start gathering in the late fall right before the election to say, hey, let's remind people what's at stake, there's an election every year, let's have some wine, let's have some fun. old fashioned political activism. we're sitting around going what are we going to do tonight? how about make some trouble? >> well, that would be one option. >> yeah. >> right. we have a couple of minutes left, lizz, you mention oud were from minnesota. oh, i sure am. >> this is a state that produced both al franken and michelle bachmann, explain that and help us understand the roots of your own issues going back to when you were growing up. >> it's funny, my dad is from philadelphia, mississippi, hot bed of liberalism. my mom is from win sew at that, they met in world war ii in washington, d.c., my dad literally up until the day he died would go to the local cbs affiliate and bitch about hue bert humphrey and he died in 2005. >> a little longer than humphrey. >> yeah. so

lgb t people are still not covered under the act. in the absence of clear protection lgbt people may be forced to file a lawsuit, a luxury most cannot afford. the obama administration has taken meaningful steps toward protecting workers from discrimination. i would like to highlight the executive order from 2014 prohibits discrimination in government actions of contractors and subcontractors. this underscores the recognition of governments compelling interest in ending this harmful discrimination. while the government has a clear discrimination in eradicating this, we recognize the interest that has been balanced with religious rights of employers. given this history, religious employers benefit from apple exemptions from federal nondiscrimination provisions. title vii provides strong protections for religious organizations, including hiring and firing. the ministerial exemption examined by the supreme court exempts religious employers from discrimination prohibition when making employment decisions involving ministerial staff. this

issued instructions on our web site to the federal government agency eeo office about how to accept lgb tea related discrimination claims as sex discrimination claims under the governing process which is part 1614 the eeo process for federal government agencies. the commission through its office of federal operations quarterly meetings with eeo directors from the covert agencies so there is a continuing dialogue with them and support for them. in addition we have a series of workgroups on the private and federal sector side for giving technical assistance to employers and employees every day who called with questions about these matters. we also have given a lot of technical assistance to federal government agencies that are seeking to develop specific transition policies to assist supervisors and h.r. departments with the nitty-gritty of how to assist an employee with any changes that might be necessary. >> my follow-up question then is these cases when all the way to hearing. is that because there was a believe that the agency was correct? >> those, the cases i believe you're referrin

you would have the lgb t. writes and economic disparity in income inequality we have some trendlines going that are not good and part of that is the dysfunctional leadership. >> how are we going to do it differently? >> i think that the class ratification and the lack of mobility we are not going to become a social democracy like -- we have to figure this out. so that is the challenge. what do you see your generation doing that other generations after the baby boomers are not. >> i don't know if that is the number one challenge and i had friends that is going to be the issue. i think online activism gets a really bad rap particularly for a lazy type of activism i don't think that is true and it's overblown. it's shown that this generation is not engaged and does activism very differently but it's still doing activism so that's one thing. secondly just to the point earlier it was insane and for the people our age entering politics out of the money that we need to raise in order to run and it's difficult that is