Kansas governor rescinds order protecting gay state workers

[Rhonda the Sly]

Shouldn't gender discrimination cover sexual orientation as well? If you discriminate against a gay employee, you are effectively discriminating based on their gender.

-Female employee living with a male life partner.
-Male employee living with a male life partner.

If second one is singled out for discrimination, the difference is their gender.

Clever, but if you're discriminating against a gay employee it's probably not because he himself is male but, instead, because he's male with a male life partner. Not all males are being effected and it's likely the same policy is in place for females, that takes gender discrimination off the table.

 

[Mxylplyx]

"All men are created equal"
No one should get special privileges because of sexual orientation.

You do understand that slavery endured for almost 100 years after that phrase was enshrined in the declaration of independence right, that women didn't gain the right to vote until about 150 years later, and blacks not until almost 200 years later...right? You should maybe be willing to forgive someone who has been actively discriminated against by the state if they didn't feel quite as protected by that clause as you think they should.

 

[theeedude]

Clever, but if you're discriminating against a gay employee it's probably not because he himself is male but, instead, because he's male with a male life partner. Not all males are being effected and it's likely the same policy is in place for females, that takes gender discrimination off the table.

If you are discriminating against a male, but not a female, employee with a male life partner, you are discriminating based on gender of the employee, since life partner gender is the same.

 

[nageov3t]

"All men are created equal"
No one should get special privileges because of sexual orientation.

how is it a special privilege anyways? wouldn't discrimination for being straight also be covered under the flag of sexual orientation?

 

[HomerJS]

how is it a special privilege anyways? wouldn't discrimination for being straight also be covered under the flag of sexual orientation?

It isn't but you can't tell that to a conservative. To them anyone getting equal treatment is giving them special treatment.

 

[brycejones]

It isn't but you can't tell that to a conservative. To them anyone getting equal treatment is giving them special treatment.

We all know that vast numbers are straight white men are being harassed and dismissed from their jobs because they refuse to by into the sexually deviant multi-cultural agenda.

It really sucks being a straight white guy in America these days. I wish I had been born a transgender Afro-Hispanic-Asian Muslim American so I could also live life on easy street.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Hollywood needs to get busy making horror films about brain eating Kansas politiciams.

In Kansas the zombies eat their own brains.

 

[Cozarkian]

Shouldn't gender discrimination cover sexual orientation as well? If you discriminate against a gay employee, you are effectively discriminating based on their gender.

-Female employee living with a male life partner.
-Male employee living with a male life partner.

If second one is singled out for discrimination, the difference is their gender.

That is true for marriage:

Straight man can marry woman
Gay man can marry woman
Straight Woman cannot marry woman

But I don't think it works here:

Straight man gets job
Gay man does not get job
Straight woman gets job

The difference in job discrimination is clearly orientation.

 

[Jhhnn]

We all know that vast numbers are straight white men are being harassed and dismissed from their jobs because they refuse to by into the sexually deviant multi-cultural agenda.

It really sucks being a straight white guy in America these days. I wish I had been born a transgender Afro-Hispanic-Asian Muslim American so I could also live life on easy street.

Well, yeh, but you forget that God hates fags, particularly in Kansas. Brownback & the pseudo-Christian haters are really just an instrument of God, don't you know?

 

[DrPizza]

Genius! Case goes to the Supreme Court, the state has to spend money to defend its side, Governor blames financial woes on the gays, needs to lower taxes on the rich and cut education even more to fix things.

 

[Jhhnn]

Wrong thread. Mea culpa.

 

[Sonikku]

"All men are created equal"
No one should get special privileges because of sexual orientation.

What was up with all that discrimination a hundred or so years ago? Seems to me African Americans should have filed a lawsuit and shoulda just rubbed that line in their faces because they were technically protected instead of wasting everyone's time with special amendments and proclamations and movements just for them.

I mean what makes them so special?