HIV-Positive Man Alleges Bias at State

The Washington Post ^ | Thursday, September 4, 2003 | Reuters

[Pan_Yans Wife]

An HIV-positive man sued the State Department yesterday for refusing to hire him as a diplomat because of his condition and said he was the victim of illegal discrimination.

Lorenzo Taylor, 48, passed the oral and written exams to become a foreign service officer but was turned down because he has the AIDS virus, according to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed the lawsuit in federal court on Taylor's behalf.

Lambda Legal said the State Department has a policy of not hiring people who are HIV-positive as diplomats on the grounds they may need medical treatment that is not available in some countries where they might be stationed.

[dennisw]

State has always been chock full of gays. Same for the Brit Foreign Service. They gravitate there. Why? I have my own theories.

[wideawake]

Here's a newsflash for you, Lorenzo: your actions have consequences.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

What is your theory?

[dennisw]

What is your theory?......

Gays like the glamor of serving abroad. Living abroad and actually getting paid for it. They love the image, the prestige and the cocktail parties, meeting and greeting people from foreign cultures and exchanging meaningless words of diplomacy. Opportunities to get it on with strange gays in strange new places

They like the acting and craping around that goes around in our embassies.