Do Republicans not believe in employment discrimination against gays?

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On tonight's Capital Gang the topic of gay marriage came up and Carlson made this rather astonishing assertion. I live in a rural area but not a particularly bad one towards gays. But I frankly think it is ridiculous to state that no Republicans wish to discriminate against gays amymore.

Incidently, we still have only 10 states which ban such discrimination. CA, NY, NH, VT, CT, MA, WI, MD, RI, and HI. edit forget MN so it is 11 states.

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1. i have PERSONALLY BEEN ORDERED

to not hire gays. the ceo said he wanted his to be a "family" company.

i was chief technology officer of a small software company and the ceo was basically saying i should prefer less qualified people, so long as they were straight.

i'm very proud to say that i promptly quit. i should point out that this was in austin, texas, where there is a city ordinance against this sort of thing.

i am even more proud to say that the company went out of business less than a year after i left. the cto of a software company quitting is a BIG DEAL, so i can only hope that i was the nail in the coffin.

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3. great story

thank you very much. I hope you landed on your feet and prospered. You certainly deserve to have done so.

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7. i did ... eventually

i was unemployed a few months, then landed at another dot-bomb.... then i joined a consulting company starting up a branch in austin .... they were a disaster, too ... it's amazing how BADLY people can run companies and remain convinced that they're right....

so 3 separate bouts of unemployment, all in all a horrible year economically. but then i ended up where i am now. nearly 3 years at this job, it's not only the best job ever, but also the company was the best prospects of all the startups i've worked for....

so, yes, it took a while, but it all ends up for the best.

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9. I am so glad of that

If there is a heaven I am sure you will be welcome right in. It is great that you did the next right thing.

[arewethereyet]

15. this is close to the reason that conservatives don't practice this

The costs of accusations of this kind are too great a risk to tolerate. However they feel personally, they will not worry about it unless it comes to interfere with that person's job performance.

Now you will always be able to fish up exceptions but in policy and in fact, its better than before.

[ButterflyBlood]

2. you forgot Minnesota

we do have such a law. some idiots tried to repeal it last year but they failed.

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4. editted sorry about that

[ButterflyBlood]

5. the fact that anyone tried to repeal it though...

proves Carlson wrong.

(btw, the main sponsor of the bill was the same guy who said gays were not persecuted in the Holocaust)

[baldguy]

6. They believe that it happens.

But, they agree with it. Encourge it. For them, it's the RIGHT thing to do.

[Jose Diablo]

8. Gay rights are just another wedge issue

to divide people and keep them from acting on their own economic self interest.

If people that had the same problems would look around and see how all these 'issues' are designed to keep people in separate 'interest' groups from forming a massive group that demanded social justice, then the ultra wealthy and powerful would lose control.

'We' is more powerful than 'me'.

[leesa]

10. They will discriminate against anyone who doesn't look like them,

think like them, dress like them, believe like them, etc., etc.

[David Zephyr]

11. Pretty Boy Tucker, Like Pretty Boy Reed Fear Being Considered Gay.

Hence, they continually go out of their way to tell everyone that they are not gay.

Sissy Gary Bauer, a wimpy heterosexual, also reveals his internal fears of being labeled "queer" by also bashing gays every chance he can.

[Terwilliger]

12. I think they meant Margaret Carlson

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14. Wrong Carlson it is Margaret not Tucker

which makes this all the more bizarre. I am really beginning to wonder just what planet I live on.

[DebJ]

13. Rich gay people or the other 90%? That's the key

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16. kick