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The Gingrich That Stole Christmas

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Source Summary

There’s a recurrent story that is going through the gossip circles during the Christmas season in trannyland. It goes like this: Barney Frank and the Human Rights Campaign really got their clocks cleaned by the United ENDA controversy, and now that they’ve really learned their lesson! Good ole’ St. Frank and the HRC’s equality elves will surprise everyone and come on board by supporting a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and opposing any version that doesn’t include everyone. There’s only one problem with that dream/fantasy/rumor… it ain’t true! One look at Barney Frank (and his most recent statement last week) and Joe Solmonese’s consistent message on this issue is enough for me. But for those that need more proof, the most recent statement of the Human Rights Campaign’s Candice Gingrich on Countdown With Keith Olbermann should pacify you. “I think it goes back again to the idea that that

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“The Gingrich That Stole Christmas” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “The Gingrich That Stole Christmas” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
75%
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Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
9%

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Labor and employment policy
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Elections and democratic governance
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations