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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re: Attention...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.195000.7062@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- References: <1992Dec31.184342.4451@PacBell.COM> <1hvfe2INN95e@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:50:00 GMT
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- > smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >> rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
-
- >> >And WHY would a company fire a good
- >> >employee *just* because he is gay?
- >>
- >> Oy! Silly Walter -- what do you think this fuss is all about,
- >> fergawdsakes?
- >
- >Rod,
- >
- >I think it was you that mentioned some cases at HP, and some
- >cases at a hospital. I asked if you could post more details
- >on it, since I've never seen it in action. So you've got
- >someone who *wants* to see examples of discrimination in
- >action, and the best you can do is "Oy! Silly Walter --"?
-
- That wasn't me.
-
- Walter, gay people have been fighting for legal protection
- from discrimination in housing, employment and public
- accommodations for many years. Not just on a whim, not just
- for grins, but because that discrimination does happen to
- gay people, every day, simply because of their sexual
- orientation. The inequities I've talked about at my
- workplace are trivial in comparison. I don't have to worry
- about losing my job or my home -- on that basis anyway :-) --
- because my employer, my city and my state have explicit
- protection against that type of discrimination. But people
- with less enlightened employers, or in less enlightened parts
- of the country do. This discrimination not rational. It has
- no bearing on their abilities as an employee, or good
- character as a tenant or citizen. If you want examples, why
- don't you contact the ACLU, or Lambda Legal Defense and
- Education Fund (212/995-8585). They fight these cases all
- the time.
- --
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- rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san ramon, ca -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
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