He asks:
[I]f Andrew has not recanted his opposition to ENDA, why does he berate and abuse Mitt Romney for the offense of agreeing with him?
Er, I didn’t. Go read the post to see for yourself. The entire point was Romney’s flip-flopping. I merely pointed out that Romney had reversed himself on the ENDA question and I was interested in why. My anti-ENDA position is unchanged (I was trashing it on HRC’s satellite radio show just the other week), but I’ve largely given up on the matter, because support – gay and straight – is so overwhelming. David asks me to substantiate this. Here’s opinion poll data from 2001. A Gallup poll found 85 percent support for equal rights for gays in employment. A Harris poll found more explicitly on ENDA that
61 percent of Americans favored a federal law prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. Additionally, the survey found that 42 percent of adults surveyed believe that such a law currently exists.
The following states already have such a law: California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. Hence my quixotic libertarianism being a lost cause. Frum has another post on the subject here, where he plainly concedes that Romney once
"declared himself in favor of a federal antidiscrimination law against gays and civil unions – while staying cautiously mute on the issue of marriage."
No one can dispute this 180 degree turn on both ENDA and civil unions. Not even Frum. I’ve watched some brazen say-anything-to-get-elected maneuvers in my time, but this one is pretty out there, don’t you think?
The Dish 