Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indiana Inequality Takes A Stand And Falls Down

"Michael said... how would any employer know ...

2009-06-19T12:35:04.282-05:00

"Michael said...
how would any employer know what kind of sex you practice unless you tell them? People should keep their sex practices and perversions to themselves instead of trying to make them into some sort of political class. It's undignified and uncouth. More than that, it demonstrates a profound lack of self respect. You are more than what you do in bed to whom or to what."

Michael, excuse me for swearing, but who in the gods-damned hell do you think you are? PERVERSIONS? I thinks it is pretty damned obvious when you are 40 plus, unmarried, in shape, with a rainbow flag on your car that you aren't str8. I've never felt it to be particularly necessary to be flaming queen at work because I'm pretty obvious as it is, but if they ask me (and I have been asked), I'm honest. I'd like to think that I won't be fired for that honesty. And, that's the way most of us are.

As for "discussing" sex practices at work, I've found that the str8 grrls are about the most open and honest, and str8 men are prone to bragging. You want me and mine to go into the closet? Why don't you and yours shut up about your own personal lives at the office first?

Frak off!

- Dana

Michael: A married heterosexual tells his or her ...

2009-06-18T19:21:57.072-05:00

Michael: A married heterosexual tells his or her employer in many ways, for a picture of his family on his desk to bringing his spouse to the office picnic. [Somehow I suspect he or she volunteers his supervisor on first meeting: "By the way, I usually insert my penis in my wife's vagina."] Yet I suspect you would not characterize this as "telling the world what you do in bed, or do what to whom". You just apply different standards.

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council refers to "practicing homosexuality", but would rile if someone started talking about him "practicing heterosexuality"

You're right. Folks ought not to be exclusively defined by their sexual practices. But it's you, who post such comments, who seem to be doing the differentiation.

how would any employer know what kind of sex you p...

2009-06-18T11:53:18.995-05:00

how would any employer know what kind of sex you practice unless you tell them? People should keep their sex practices and perversions to themselves instead of trying to make them into some sort of political class. It's undignified and uncouth. More than that, it demonstrates a profound lack of self respect. You are more than what you do in bed to whom or to what.

As an attorney who practices employment law, I can...

2009-06-17T14:35:07.600-05:00

As an attorney who practices employment law, I can tell you that the provisions of ENDA would go a long way towards achieving equality in terms of discrimination. The employment cases are what clients bring to attorneys. Rarely are there complaints involving public accomodations and housing, which are covered under Indianapolis' Human Rights Ordinance already.

I'm a member of, " the very community&quo...

2009-06-17T13:48:35.386-05:00

I'm a member of, " the very community", and I'm not enraged.

I need more info from Indiana Equality before I go off half-cocked.