GLBT EO online petition:

[halsey]

GLBT EO online petition: Equal Opportunity - Unless You're Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender. In 31 states, it's still legal to fire someone because they're gay; in 39 states it is legal to fire someone for being transgender. Thousands of hardworking GLBT Americans have lost their livelihoods simply because of who they are. The Human Rights Campaign is leading the charge to end this bitter injustice by passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a federal bill that would make it illegal to fire, refuse to hire, or refuse to promote employees simply based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Our momentum for this historic legislation is building on Capitol Hill. But the radical right is flooding lawmakers with lies and misinformation about ENDA. You can set the facts straight. Send your lawmakers a message today. Make sure they know passing ENDA is the American thing to do!

[urbano]

the employer finds out a person is gay and hands the person a pink slip without cause?

[achee]

I guess so.

[mangesh]

No proof needed, suspicion is often enough.

[melnik]

WI is one of the few, that I can't be fired for being queer. Gawd, love it! of course they can make up all kinds of other shit to mask it...oh well.

[burn]

making stuff up: /

[Sybyl]

hard to believe as progressive as the US is on civil rights, that we are still are in the dark ages on hiring practices.

[howsare]

One thing I always hated.. About growing up in a black church... is how the elders have all grown up in an era when blacks were segregated and mistreated with little to no rights at all, yet they cannot make the correlation between that and gay movements today. As if those who spoke out against Blacks rights didn't use the Bible to justify all of their actions. They're doing the EXACT SAME THING! I have since left this church, but the pastor once did an entire sermon on how being gay is wrong the ONE day I got stuck sitting in the front row with my mother. I was about x at the time, but I could swear he was giving me 'the look' every now and then. It just irks me.

[creed]

I know what you mean ~ it makes me so angry too I remember back in the 'x's we had this wonderful french teacher in our very small town high school. The students loved her. She brought her husband to some school function and all hell broke loose. She's white and he's black. All of a sudden her teaching ability was an issue. The argument, in the main, was that God wouldn't like this mixed marriage. We students were outraged, as only adolescents can be. We teenagers just could NOT understand all these adults, we had formerly respected and relied on, telling us that it was wrong for this obviously in love couple to be together. Uh, it was better for the fighting and/or nasty all white or all black couples to be together. I "hear" the anti-gay arguments the same way I "heard" the racist arguments. They are both fear/hate based and they are both superficial.