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- From: smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu (Suzanne Morine)
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re:
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.230009.27954@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 23:00:09 GMT
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- smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
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- >Charlie Fulton <charlie@isis.mit.edu> writes:
- >> In article <1hv70lINN69f@hp-col.col.hp.com> Walter Smith,
- >> smithw@col.hp.com writes:
- >> >I don't think that would work, unless your job evaluations showed you
- >> >really *were* a bad employee. And WHY would a company fire a good
- >> >employee *just* because he is gay?
- >>
- >> I'm not sure, but I think the management of "Cracker Barrel"
- >> could answer your question.
-
- >Yeah, there are going to be some idiots. (come on, come on,
- >quite giggling..) But do 'normal' companies do this?
-
- Anti-discrimination laws exist to prevent blatant "isms" against people
- from going unrecognized and unpunished. Discrimination doesn't have to
- be "normal" within a community for such anti-discrimination laws to be
- put in place (just as a community doesn't have to be a den of theives
- before laws against stealing are put into effect). Ironically, Amd 2
- will likely make blatant discrimination against gay people more common,
- perhaps even "normal." And a norm of discrimination is a good case for
- enacting quotas - the very thing you claim Colorado voters voted for
- Amd 2 to prevent!
-
- --
- --Suzanne Morine smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu
- --"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If
- --they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men,
- --the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." Helen Keller
-