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Title: Loudoun County VA Latest To Add GLBT Employmemt Protections
Post by: Butterfly on January 25, 2010, 12:16:07 PM
Loudoun County VA Latest To Add GLBT Employmemt Protections
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
25 January, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/01/loudoun-county-va-latest-to-add-glbt.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/01/loudoun-county-va-latest-to-add-glbt.html)


After a heated discussion full of the usual Republican lies and scare tactics, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted on January 5 in favor of adding language to the county's equal employment opportunity policy not permitting the government to base its hiring or firing practices on someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.

"It's the right thing to do," said Supervisor Stevens Miller (D-Dulles), the maker of the motion, explaining he heard from several members of the community on the matter and thought it was time to include the language in county policy.