A day without gays...

[Vermilion]

A Day Without Gays

A strike protest against the banning of gay marriage. Good idea? Bad idea? Pointless idea? I can't decide...

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[Liar]

A good idea, but not well thought through. Or maybe it's all a tounge-in-cheek kinda thing?

Like this:

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BUT I CAN'T CALL IN AT WORK ON 12/10 OR I'LL GET FIRED!
If you live in one of the 30 states where individuals can still be fired simply for being gay or lesbian, there are still plenty of ways that you can lend a hand and a voice in our fight for gay equality--without missing work. CLICK HERE for actions you can take RIGHT NOW!
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Um... they wouldn't be fired for being gay. They'd be fired for taking time off for arbitrary private reasons. In fact, wouldn't NOT firing them for calling in "gay" be the same as agreeing that gayness is a disease?

 

[impressive]

A good idea, but not well thought through. Or maybe it's all a tounge-in-cheek kinda thing?

Like this:

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BUT I CAN'T CALL IN AT WORK ON 12/10 OR I'LL GET FIRED!
If you live in one of the 30 states where individuals can still be fired simply for being gay or lesbian, there are still plenty of ways that you can lend a hand and a voice in our fight for gay equality--without missing work. CLICK HERE for actions you can take RIGHT NOW!
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Um... they wouldn't be fired for being gay. They'd be fired for taking time off for arbitrary private reasons. In fact, wouldn't NOT firing them for calling in "gay" be the same as agreeing that gayness is a disease?

Yes, there ARE places who fire folks for being gay. Gay/lesbian is not a protected class in terms of most civil rights laws in the U.S.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

America is now the Land of Cripples.

Everyone but straight white males gets a free pair of crutches to ease their burden.

 

[Powertone]

Yes, there ARE places who fire folks for being gay. Gay/lesbian is not a protected class in terms of most civil rights laws in the U.S.

and there's a bus load of aclu lawyers ready to destroy any business that dares to fire an employee based on sexual orientation-

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

POWERTONE

Lawyers are incapable of destroying anything, jurors do the damage.

 

[Liar]

Yes, there ARE places who fire folks for being gay. Gay/lesbian is not a protected class in terms of most civil rights laws in the U.S.

Yeah I know. Didn't say otherwise.

Just said that if you take a day off because you want to make a political statement instead of because you're sick, you being fired has nothing to do with your sexuality. It has to do with you refusing to show up at work for an arbitrary reason. Being gay is not a legitimate cause to get fired, but it's also not a legitimate cause to not do your job.

We can discuss if taking a day off for political work/charity/personal reasons and so on should be seen as legitimate reasons or not (I'd say yes. Illness is not the only pressing issue that peple need to deal with in their lives.), but that's another thing entirely.

And if you "call in gay", what you're doing is screwing your employer over to make a statement. Apparenly an employer who apparently DID hire gay people like you (the proverbial you, yannowwhatimean).

Am I missing something here?