Homosexual agenda runs roughshod over our civil liberties

http://www.adn.com/opinion/compass/story/822765.html
JIM MINNERY
6/7/09

Picture this scenario. A man walks into Mad Myrna's, the gay bar in
downtown Anchorage, intending to apply for a recently advertised
bartender position. He is wearing a T-shirt that boldly says either
Exodus International or Love Won Out, two well-known ministries that
provide encouragement and resources to those in the homosexual
community who are looking for help to escape what has become a
burdensome and conflicting lifestyle.

"I'm sorry," the Mad Myrna's general manager says, "our business
caters to those who actually embrace the gay, lesbian, transgendered,
bi-sexual and questioning lifestyles. Your T-shirt makes it obvious
that you hold a different viewpoint. We can't, in good conscience,
employ someone who is actively and obviously at such odds with the
values of this bar. You'll have to look for employment elsewhere."

What an idiotic piece! First, no employer would even begin that conversation if she had any sense at all. You take the application,  do the interview and then note in your head to reject the candidate. You write down nothing that indicates that is why you rejected the candidate, instead you hire someone who was a better candidate for the job, even if the candidate you hire is a moron who spills about half of the beer he draws!

Yet another stupid strawman set up by some idiot to make a point that doesn't apply to the case cited.

And the heterosexual/religious agenda has run roughshod over our civil liberties.

I have to give it to Mr. Minnery, he starts off pretty good but his defense gets thin and eventually caves when the situation is thought out. 

The applicant with the T-shirt should not have been turned away because of his beliefs.  The bar should have hired him if he was the best qualified applicant.  But if he used his position of bartender at a gay bar to recruit people to his ministry and that hurt business or impaired his abilities to perform his duties, then he should be fired.

But Mr. Minnery wants support for his desire to discriminate by telling the LGBT community we can discriminate against those who don't support us and therefore establish the opposite to be okay - the phobes can discriminate against LGBT people.

At least the guy got it right in the end.  This is a religious issue.  But he missed the fact that his religious beliefs have no place at the state or federal level.

Now Mr. Minnery, go back to your church and try to get them to understand being Christian requires one to follow the teachings of Christ and I have yet to read that Christ discriminated against anyone.

Julie

I cringe every time the term "homosexual agenda" is used.

Picture this scenario. A man walks into a trendy downtown business intending to apply for a recently advertised position. He is wearing a cheap cotton T-shirt from some organization or company that boldly says that he is a fashion-unconscious geek who has nothing in common with the employees or clientel of the business.

"I'm sorry," the general manager says, "our business caters to those who actually make a tiny effort to not look like total slobs when they come here, especially for a job interview. Your T-shirt makes it obvious that you hold a different viewpoint. Why don't you go home, take a shower, get dressed in some real job-interview clothes, and look for a job. Elsewhere."

Or my personal favorite, repeated often in my life - "I'm here to load trucks" and I look down and see bare feet in Teva sandals and they wonder why I won't put them on the job.

It's OK, in fact encouraged to wear a shirt where I work that says things that I can't even write out in here, or the simple all time fav "Your Favorite Band Sucks" - but I wouldn't wear that to get a job with a church either.