Thread: ENDA drives the bigots crazy!
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Old 11-11-2007, 03:22 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fxashun View Post
I don't see the religious suddenly deciding that there is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality.
I don't see that either, but no one is asking them to do so. I work with a couple of people who act in ways I find personally morally troublesome, but I wouldn't want to see them lose their jobs becaose of it. I just act professionally with them, get my work done, and choose not to associate with them any more than I have to.

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Should a gay man be fired for just being gay from a privately owned company where the owner knows he has other valued employees that are uncomfortable around that person? Maybe. Why should the majority in a private company change for that one person?
You are right. These uncomfortable people you mention shouldn't change for that one person. They should change for themselves, because tolerance is a good thing for everyone.

Because, when they eventually run across that one person, or some other person, in a work situation or some other situation, they will already be equipped to coexist comfortably, rendering this whole topic a non-issue.

The idea that the continued comfort of intolerant people is more worthy of protection than a person's continued secure employment/livelihood is one that I not only can't accept, but one that I can't figure out how any decent person could approve of.
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