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Persuasion of being homosexual. >> now congressman, the religious exemption clause is fairly broad. so would it really force people to hire openly gay teachers, as we just heard? >> the law has been crafted, you know, very carefully to make sure that one, we're protecting people who are gay or lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, but also respect the first amendment rights of religious institutions. i think it's crafted in a way to pass the senate and our job then is to try to get it to pass the house, as well. but it's far past time and i think some of the rhetoric you'll hear from members will ...

Everyone's rights must be protected. >> congressman, secretary hagel also says he's ready to take further action to bring those nine red states into compliance. what do you think of that? >> well, it's the directive from their military leader. they should follow it. and make sure that we don't discriminate in the national guard. so i'm hopeful. in fact, very hopeful that will happen. i think it's important to note, jonathan, that when chris mentioned part of the problem we have had so far on enda, two-thirds of the people in the country support enda. over 50% of republicans think it's -- i thi...

Reid has set a vote for monday on legislation that would protect the lgbt community from workplace discrimination. to talk about it, joining us now is representative mark pocan, democrat of wisconsin, and chris geitner, legal editor at buzzfeed.com. the bill in the senate is called the employment and nondiscrimination act and bars companies with more than 15 employees from discriminating against workers on the basis of their sexuality or sexual orientati orientation. and joe manchin of west virginia was the last holdout among the democrats. he's now on board. two republicans, collins of maine ...