Marco Rubio is once again taking a bold stand against equal rights for others, this time voting against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that protects workers from discrimination based on their sexual orientation.

Rubio has never minced words on his views against LGBT rights, but his reasoning for voting to allow employers to continue discriminating against their employees based on their sexual orientation is jarring: It would just result in "frivolous lawsuits" according to his spokeswoman:

"He believes people’s qualifications, performance and honesty are the most important qualities by which they should be judged in the workplace. If you’re a good worker, that’s all that should matter," spokeswoman Brooke Sammon said. "This legislation goes far beyond protecting workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation, and he is currently studying what kinds of burdens it could impose on small businesses, frivolous lawsuits that could result, and ensuring that religious freedoms under the First Amendment are protected."

Yes, Rubio believes that honesty is an important quality in the workplace, so presumably a gay worker would have to lie about their sexual orientation in order not to be discriminated against? If the fact that you're a good worker is all that's important, as Rubio claims, what does one's sexual orientation have to do with that?

Never mind that states which have laws against anti-gay workplace discrimination are lacking in just those kind of lawsuits. Rubio just ignores this and claims the law goes "far beyond protecting workers" but he doesn't indicate what that means. I guess because he needs "further study."

Of course, Rubio doesn't need to study anything. As far as he's concerned, equal rights are frivolous, and there's no place for gays in the workplace, or anywhere else for that matter, when it comes to the Republican Party.

UPDATED on 11-7-13:

ENDA passed in the Senate with a vote of 64-32. Marco Rubio voted no. Bill Nelson voted yes.