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Many Workplaces Are Gay-Friendly
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 26, 2005 | Barbara Rose

Posted on 06/27/2005 6:48:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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"'You can bring your whole self to work rather than seeming isolated and distant because you can't talk about what you do outside work,' said the 25-year-old assistant marketing manager."

PLEASE! Enough already. No one wants to know!

Why do such a small percentage of mentally ill pervs have such a loud voice?

"Yet the growing visibility and political clout of groups that condemn homosexuality is triggering new worries for companies that promote acceptance."

Good!

1 posted on 06/27/2005 6:48:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Just don't let them know you are a Christian Conservative.
2 posted on 06/27/2005 6:55:14 AM PDT by sierrahome (Colfax, CA; "A Small Drinking Town With A Rail Road Problem.")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Just had the "Gay Pride" parade in NYC this past weekend.

It was the usual assortment of freaks and fetishists decked out to highlight and promote their particular sexual perversion.


3 posted on 06/27/2005 6:58:35 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The groundwork for his positive experience was laid by more than 30 years of activism to persuade big corporations like Quaker's parent PepsiCo Inc. that promoting a gay- friendly workplace is good business.

I really wonder about that statement without any stats to back it up. The huge cost of health care for very unhealthy behavior, the loss of business from not like minded thinking people, the higher turnover rates - etc.

4 posted on 06/27/2005 6:59:09 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"The value of being out is taking advantage of these opportunities to stand up and educate everyone," he said.

No, please.  I don't want to know OR become educated.  I am not homophobic nor do I practice gay-hate crimes in life, but I don't NEED to know about your "lifestyle".  Keep it to yourself and we'll both be much happier.

Why do these people think I need to know about their private live's anyway?  I don't discriminate against them, belittle them or treat them any differently than anyone else at work ... I only want one thing from them, keep your private life private!

5 posted on 06/27/2005 6:59:32 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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It was the usual assortment of freaks and fetishists decked out to highlight and promote their particular sexual perversion.

And why they think that's going to make people accept them remains a mystery to me.

6 posted on 06/27/2005 7:04:42 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
promoting a gay- friendly workplace is good business.

Of course. They don't take maternity leave, or leave to pick up the kids at school. In many ways, they're the ideal drones.

7 posted on 06/27/2005 7:05:00 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"You can bring your whole self to work..."

Yeah, so can you talk during your coffee hour about the nice young man you met at the gym and later sodomized at your apartment.


8 posted on 06/27/2005 7:08:28 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: GianniV

Re-written:

"Yeah, so can you talk during your coffee hour about the nice young man you met in the restroom and later sodomized at the rest-stop."


9 posted on 06/27/2005 7:15:03 AM PDT by L98Fiero
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Employers feel a need to court this important demographic group both as customers and employees."

oh for the love of mike, they are only 2% (if that) of the population..

10 posted on 06/27/2005 7:21:51 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (I musta taken a wrong turn at 198.182.159.17)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I love how these CEOs and executives think it's great to have cross-dressers and flaming homosexuals running around the workplace. BUT, they will NEVER have of these freaks in high positions of power reporting to them.

So, it's okay to have the low to mid-level employees work alongside these freaks, just as long as they don't have to deal with them.


11 posted on 06/27/2005 7:22:21 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The basic problem in my mind is why sexuality is an issue in the work place to begin with. Whether straight, gay or beast, it just doesn't belong in the workplace in any manner.


12 posted on 06/27/2005 7:25:03 AM PDT by IamConservative (The true character of a man is revealed in what he does when no one is looking.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I'd hate to go before St. Peter at the gates of heaven and say please let me in heaven. And St. Peter ask, have you killed anyone? Are you a homosexuel? Do you mistreat children or puppies?


13 posted on 06/27/2005 7:32:42 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher
And St. Peter ask, have you killed anyone? Are you a homosexuel? Do you mistreat children or puppies?

Not to worry. St Peter won't ask any of those things. The only issue will be whether or not you accepted the grace of Jesus Christ by faith.

14 posted on 06/27/2005 7:48:41 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: IamConservative

"The basic problem in my mind is why sexuality is an issue in the work place to begin with."

Some would say it was we "uppity women" that paved the way for gays to follow us into the workplace.

But, I think the gay men and lesbians were in the workforce long before everyday women started storming the castle, after the NOW Hags told us we'd better! It just wasn't made public, and those "nice young men and women" were referred to as "Bachelors" and, of course, "Old Maids" and kept to themselves in their little apartments with their cats. ;)


15 posted on 06/27/2005 7:51:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Many Workplaces Are Gay-Friendly



Yeah, that was forced down out throats durng the thought police Clinton years..accept them or else.


16 posted on 06/27/2005 7:53:56 AM PDT by Recall
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because you can't talk about what you do outside work,' said the 25-year-old assistant marketing manager.

Is having sex all this guy does? When I'm sitting around chatting with others on break, we don't spend our time talking about our sex lives, especially in mixed company. Maybe that's key here, but if a gay starts talking about his sex life at work, the room will be empty in short order, and I'd be the first one out the door.

I used to work with a gay dude, but I never knew it until a female co-worker told me (she was amazed that I couldn't tell, but most men don't have the kind of "sixth sense" that women do). I didn't mind working with him, because we never discussed sex.

17 posted on 06/27/2005 8:03:22 AM PDT by Marauder (Politicians use words the way a squid uses ink.)
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later pingout.


18 posted on 06/27/2005 8:09:26 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I wanna work someplace that celebrates religious diversity

That way I can astro-project my soul to work

And my lazy ass can stay home in bed watching TV


19 posted on 06/27/2005 8:27:23 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Just trying to get in touch with my inner tagline..got feelers out but not much luck so far)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Rca2000
"It's all part of the big plan."

pinging the originator of the quote, rca2000
20 posted on 06/27/2005 8:35:49 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
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