GOP Congressman Unsure LGBT Workplace Discrimination Even Exists

In this Wednesday, March 28, 2012, photo, North Dakota Republican U.S. House candidate Kevin Cramer poses in front of a billboard advertising his candidacy in Bismarck, N.D., located near the Bismarck Civic Center, ... In this Wednesday, March 28, 2012, photo, North Dakota Republican U.S. House candidate Kevin Cramer poses in front of a billboard advertising his candidacy in Bismarck, N.D., located near the Bismarck Civic Center, where North Dakota Republicans will endorse candidates for statewide office this weekend at the party's state convention. Cramer has already decided he will run in the Republican primary in June, and he is not competing for the party endorsement. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel) MORE LESS
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Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said on Tuesday he is skeptical workplace discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people exists.

“I’m not even sure that this is a problem,” Cramer told Bismarck, N.D. television station KFYR.

“I have to be honest, I don’t get many, if any — I don’t know that I’ve ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they’ve been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation,” he said.

Cramer said he believes companies should be allowed to establish their own policies on the matter and the recent effort, according to the TV station.

Cramer was responding to news Monday that the President plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Watch KYFR’s report:

h/t Huffington Post

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  1. And there are what, 11 people who live in North Dakota?

  2. “I’m not even sure that this is a problem,” Cramer told Bismarck, N.D. television station KFYR.

    “I have to be honest, I don’t get many, if any – I don’t know that I’ve ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they’ve been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation,” he said.

    So the gist of your argument is, unless someone personally complains to you, an issue doesn’t exist?

  3. Heck, like most baggernuts, he just hates everybody that ain’t him or his. That’s true equal-opportunity.

  4. Avatar for maxie maxie says:

    What I want to know is, who is this troll Kay Steiger and what is her piece of sh!t click bait story with misleading headline doing on TPM? Trying to get Drudge to link to it?

  5. So, Rep Cramer, if you believe that individual business should be able to “establish their own policies” that you’d be fine if a business owner decided it was ok to discriminate against someone who was black (or white for that matter); or Christian or male? But what can you say about a man who uses the Bible (2 Thessalonians 3:10) to take food away from children, disabled people, veterans and the elderly?

    Rep Cramer would be wise to remember the words of the Christ he purports to believe in: “Whatever you do to the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did to me.”

    Rep. Cramer, your karmic payback is going to be a bitc#.

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