Homosexuality is a sexual preference, not a Civil Right

[Hazumu]

Daniel Gilbert
Guest Columnist

Xenia Daily Gazette

"During the height of segregation, blacks were not able to enjoy this privilege. They could not hide the fact that they were black, and pass for white, in order to compete openly in the market place. It was not until, and then after the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 was passed, that those color barriers began to fall, and rightfully so. There is visible distinction between a person with more pigment in their skin and one with less."

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Replace the word 'blacks' with 'transgendered' in the above statement...

The whooping and hollering of the FundeVangelist Right as they smell their victor is making me very ill tonight...

Karen

[Keira]

Its "funny" (not really), the ones that were most like the civil right blacks, the transgendered, were kicked out. And now, the gays who according to fundies don't really need it... Are next in line for a whooping... Removing T's from ENDA was a really bad tactical error!!

[asiangurliee]

The HRC sucks.

[HelenW]

Another one of those "immutable characteristics" articles. sheesh!

How many people have sued their employers claiming they were fired because they were Christian?

emelye

[Sheila]

I wonder how many MtoF or FtoM transexuals are on active duty in the military, even if they didn't tell? Do you think that they would be able to get their hormones? How about surgery? ->-bleeped-<- is not something that you can hide very well. In the job market you would be found out as you will have alias after your name when they do a security check. I know, my wife tells me that this does come up. Where she works, they don't care unless the alias is to hide a felony or something. You don't have to tell a future employer what you do in bed, but you do have to state your gender (that is wrong too).
Sheila

[asiangurliee]

I forgot to say, as much as I despise the HRC and those who would support an exclusive bill, homosexuality IS a civil right issue. Let's not forget many GLB people are for inclusiveness, there is never a right time or circumstance to endorse those people who are against homosexuality.

[Keira]

The problem here is most gays who are fired, harassed, found out to be gay, are the ones that are "out of norm' in some way.

If somebody's mostly like everybody else except for their sexuality, how will I know unless they tell me. I barely know if coworkers have boyfriends, girlfriends, or even are maried, unless they tell me. Their family or spouse almost never comes to work.

So, its if you look gay, which often relates to gender expression that you are most at risk. So, what on earth are they protecting with this ENDA! They're protecting themselves from creep employers who pry in the lives of all their employees; maybe there should be privacy laws to protect all employees from such employers...

[asiangurliee]

One important fact is that alot of "straight acting, conservative gay men" look down on "flamers" too.