Advocates launch campaign to bar workplace discrimination against gays

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Advocates launch campaign to bar workplace discrimination against gays


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/advocates-launch-campaign-to-bar-workplace-discrimination-against-gays/2013/07/30/d7089250-f86a-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_story.html

By Juliet Eilperin, Published: July 30

Critics of the measure, including Traditional Values Coalition President Andrea Lafferty, said the fact that it provides protection for transgender Americans will make it hard for even some Democratic senators to accept.

Within the gay movement, Lafferty argued, transgender people "are kind of like the crazy aunt at Thanksgiving. They put up with the crazy aunt at Thanksgiving, but they don't want to be seen with her in public."

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Within the gay movement, Lafferty argued, transgender people "are kind of like the crazy aunt at Thanksgiving. They put up with the crazy aunt at Thanksgiving, but they don't want to be seen with her in public."

How nice to be once again reminded of where we stand in the LGBT community...

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How nice to be once again reminded of where we stand in the LGBT community...

No, I disagree. The quote was from an anti-LGBT-rights activist. I see it as an attempt to split our community by planting that seed in people's minds.

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Critics of the measure, including Traditional Values Coalition President Andrea Lafferty, said the fact that it provides protection for transgender Americans will make it hard for even some Democratic senators to accept.

Within the gay movement, Lafferty argued, transgender people "are kind of like the crazy aunt at Thanksgiving. They put up with the crazy aunt at Thanksgiving, but they don't want to be seen with her in public."

It stands to reason. Wasn't the United States started by a bunch of loonies, religious nutters, criminals and social misfits from other countries such as the UK?

Very traditional if you ask me.