Rand Says LGBT Discrimination Laws Not Necessary: Many Places ‘Will Hire You’

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a campaign stop at the Republican Liberty Caucus, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, in Nashua , N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Wednesday said that laws to protect LGBT individuals from discrimination in the workplace are unnecessary, arguing that new laws would only prompt more litigation.

“I think really the things you do in your house, we could just leave those in your house and they wouldn’t have to be part of the workplace,” Paul said when asked at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, whether employers should be able to fire people for being gay or transgender, according to a video recorded by the Huffington Post.

“It sets up a whole industry for people who want to sue,” Paul continued, arguing that it would give those who “happen to be gay” and get fired a “reason” to sue their former employer.

“People don’t put up a sign and say, ‘I’m firing you because you’re gay.’ It’s something that’s very much disputed,” he said.

The senator added that plenty of companies will hire gay people and that many employers have established rules prohibiting discrimination against LGBT individuals.

“I don’t know that we need to keep adding to different classifications to say the government needs to be involved in the hiring and firing. I think society is rapidly changing and that if you are gay, there are plenty of places that will hire you,” he said.

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  1. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    Ok, so some companies will hire you if you are gay. The problem is that some companies will fire you if you are gay. If that isn’t discrimination, then I don’t know what is.

  2. Are they allowed to discriminate against Christians as well, Rand?

  3. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Yada yada still selling the same old same old hate Rand Paul. Zero points and F-minus for originality.

  4. How are my husband and I, thirty years together, supposed to keep it in “our house” when the banks and the government discriminated making it impossible for the two of us to own a home together just a couple of decades ago?

    When I came out in 1974, my mother shrieked, “You will die alone!” You are trying to make sure that happens by erasing the last 30 years of our lives.

    So you may never speak of your wife or children in any manner.

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