First the Bush administration trued to quietly disappear all references to the meager protections federal workers had against sexual orientation discrimination.
Next we had a Bush hack try to strip away those meager protections by reinterpreting the federal statute in which they are based.
These efforts failed because of the outcry against them.
Now the bigot bastards are renegotiating federal contracts to remove lists of protected categories (including sexual orientation) and replacing it with the phrase “any class protected by law.” Since sexual orientation is not explicitly named as a class protected by law on the federal level, the contract protections fought for for years will be lost and gay federal employees will be vulnerable all over again.
I am so fucking sick of these frightened little wretches, so fucking terrified of something that does absolutely no harm to anyone that they can’t let any opportunity to fuck over gay people past. I’m trying to find the words to express the level of contempt I have for them, the level of flat-out rage that’s permeating my body yet again at these horrible, evil vermious bastards, and I can’t. I don’t have the words to express how much I hate them.
You know, when the Log Cabin Republicans refuse to endorse a Republican presidential candidate, their record on sexual orientation protections sucks big giant rocks.
Well…maybe. I mean, Cheney does seem more tolerant of gays, but at the same time, we’d probably be living in the U.S. of Halliburton if he was in charge.
Well, as long as we’re retroactively wishing a Bush had succumbed to something that could’ve rid us of the evil he’s perpetrated, can we go all the way back to Bush #1 and any of the maladies that might’ve prevented even the birth of #2, let alone the vice-presidency and presidency of #1, which were just as corrupt and evil? Then there’s the other son/brother in Florida. The world might be a different place, indeed, had not this evil family risen to so much power and control.
Heh. I’m not gay or anything, and I’m not usually up on gay issues, etc., but I want to say jeez, I’m sorry!
I am really perplexed by the whole anti-gay thing. What’s the damage? Why the hell does anybody care? I can usually at least understand why people think things, even things with which I strongly disagree. But I honestly cannot find a place in my mind that can understand this.
Don’t you know that gay people are threatening the sacred institution of marriage!!!
And that it’s the government’s duty to determine what is sacred and to defend it at all costs!!!
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At that gays have a secret agenda to take over the country!!!1
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Don’t you realize that we were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, because we tolerate all matter of sexual pervisity and that gay sex is perverse and a sin and that with so much sin God doesn’t protect us anymore!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!
An Arky, why is it you hate America so much!!!
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the ranter’s head explodes, much to the relief of civilization
Yup, George I is the only person on Earth who makes me wish the Japanese had been a bit more thorough during WW2.
OTOH, I’m perpetually irked at gay activists for letting the “gay marriage” fight get so much press when the much more fundamental and universal right of non-discrimination in the workplace is essentially ignored. (Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for legal and federal recognition of gay families and the war is now too “on” to retreat, but the fact that like hundreds of thousands if not millions of other gays I could lose my state job tomorrow for being openly gay and have absolutely no recourse is also worthy of combat.
*I’m not being a total alarmist; at the moment I can be pretty sure it wouldn’t happen, but the fact is it could
**Yes, I could sue and possibly even eventually win, but supporting myself in the five years before it comes to trial might be a bother.
I cannot possibly effectively express (a) how idiotic I find this sentiment, and (b) how happy I will be on Wednesday, November 3rd, glefully celebrating a Bush win.
Agreed. At worst, I remember him as being kind of just…there. Other than the whole Gulf War I thing, which occasioned some of the most hilarious incongruities between appearance and speech when Poppy started talkin’ tough to SADdam on the national airwaves.
All that aside, I’d accept Poppy as a superior replacement for his spawn right now.
[cough]delayed S&L investigations until after '88 election to conceal son Neil’s involvement costing tax payers billions[/cough][cough]almost totally lacking in domestic policy[/cough]
He didn’t say he was a good president, he just said he wasn’t that bad. Which is true, at least when compared to his son. Sort of like how herpes isn’t that bad, when compared to untreated syphilis.
Maybe it’s just me, but when people here are talking about how Bush may do away with some of the essential protections against discrimination, and that they’re worried about their jobs and their lively hood, for you to come in here and start saying how “gleful” you’ll be if he’s reelected somehow strikes me as pretty damn shitty.
Of course, like I said, it could be just me.
To gay/bisexual Dopers, my heart is with you. This is fucked up. It’s been over 2,000 years since Christ died, and people who claim to be his followers STILL have yet to actually practice what he taught.
Enjoy it! Give your wife a kiss during the celebration. Y’all can probably do it in public without fear that someone’s going to take you out back and bash your head in with a brick. Or that one of your co-workers is going to see you doing it and have you fired.
So enjoy it! That’s the feeling of victory and security and moral superiority! America Works!
I’m trying (really, really trying) to separate Bricker’s firm commitment to constitutional separation of powers and the sovereignty of the people from the possibility that he just doesn’t consider homosexual relationships to be substantively equivalent to heterosexual relationships and therefore the matter of gay marriage not important enough to worry about, but it gets harder every time he posts in a political thread.
I’ve posted a couple of times my promise not to gloat if Bush goes down in flames and Kerry moves into the White House in January 2005. I made, and reiterate, this promise because I’m sick of the partisan slime and I want to do my small part to pursue a reduction of the overwhelming venom in this country’s political climate.
Posts like yours don’t make me want to withdraw my promise. They just make me think you’re an asshole.
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