opinion

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have historically and pervasively been singled out for discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Now, the Iowa Legislature is considering legislation to prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, credit, public accommodations and education based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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There is an economic imperative to strengthen and increase the size of our work force. We are competing in a global market. Any waste of talent is a loss in productivity, innovation and wealth that we cannot permit. Simply put, Iowa cannot afford to lose the contributions of any Iowan.

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In my life time, I've seen some of the most talented and intelligent people are eccentric in some form or another. 

I performed in a church on Sunday.  It was a lovely service.  I performed 16 compositions with over half of them written by gay men. I wonder what they would have thought had they known there was a ->-bleeped-<- performing gay music?

Cindi

This kind of law only makes sense.  As Cindi says, a lot of people are eccentric who are talented.  Especially here in the midwest (I'm not that far from IA myself), there remains a lot of discrimination and anti-intellectualism and so on.  Even a small portion of the workforce affected by this discrimination is too much.  We no longer really have a manufacturing economy that is somewhat local.  Even if we did, every worker is valuable, yes, but we have to compete now with people all over the world. 

Now, the law makes sense, but is it enforceable?  I would imagine that these laws are particularly hard to enforce.  Not that it shouldn't be a law, but . . .


btw
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b/d

There was someone I used to be friends with who was going to school to learn how to be an effective city manager.  He said that what he wanted to do was show them how smart it was to attract the LGBT folks in order to boost the local work pool.  Hopefully he will be able to do that.  Sadly, I will never know whether he ever makes it or not.