PrideSource.com – by Todd A. Heywood – Capitol Correspondent
‘Learned the degree of pain’ from community
Ann Arbor – Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C., told BTL last week that he and his organization stood by their decision to support a non-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act bill on the House floor, but they had underestimated the pain such an action would cause.
“What we learned obviously was the degree of pain that it was going to cause in the community,” Solmonese said during a wide ranging 45 minute interview.