Freedom To Work Slams Marco Rubio

Miami Herald journalist Steve Rothaus has their full statement:

"Freedom to Work condemns Senator Rubio's retrograde stance against basic workplace protections for gay and transgender Americans," said Tico Almeida, a first-generation Cuban-American who is President of the LGBT organization Freedom to Work. "Like Rubio's family, my parents also abandoned Communist Cuba because America is a place where every individual should be empowered to build a successful career based on talent and hard work rather than getting held back because of irrelevant characteristics like sexual orientation or gender identity. It's just plain sad that Rubio is mimicking the kind of anti-gay discriminatory positions that the Castro regime took during decades past. It seems the Senator has learned too little about American values."

Here's the brief Think Progress interview that started the latest flap.