Thousands of Royal Bank employees to display Rainbow Triangle on workdesks (Homosexual Advocacy)

Canadafreepress.com ^ | Judi McLeod

[Michael Goldsberry]

Thousands of Royal Bank employees to display Rainbow Triangle on workdesks

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com

September 24, 2004

Tens of thousands of Royal Bank Canada employees are being asked by bank management to display the Rainbow Triangle on their work desks. In early September, RBC employees arrived at the office to find the directive on their PCs. "The RBC Safe Space (program) is a visible, non-threatening way to show that your desk, cubicle or office is a "safe place" for gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and lesbians," employees were told in the first edition of the bank's online newsletter, Rainbow Space.

The Safe Space Program, introduced within Service Delivery Central Canada, "highlights the importance of sexual preference as one of RBC's diversity elements."

Of the Royal Bank's 60,000 global employees, roughly half are Canadian.

As far as is known, RBC is the first corporate source directing employees to display the Rainbow Triangle in the workplace.

"The Safe Space Program is a voluntary program that is designed to provide a non-threatening way for employees to send the message that homophobia and hostility will not be tolerated within RBC," states Rainbow Space newsletter.

While bank management claims displaying Rainbow Triangle stickers is voluntary, the inference taken from the request is that not showing the sticker could lead to hostility, demotion or job loss. In the wake of Canada's Bill C-250, which includes sexual orientation in anti-hate legislation, there's also the threat of a two-year prison term.

[2banana]

Any Safe Space Program for Christians?

[applpie]

but it sure sends out a BIG message to Canadian conservatives, Christians, and anyone with half a brain....."DON'T EVEN DARE THINK THERE IS SUCH A THING AS FREE SPEECH IN THIS WORK PLACE!"

[Pondman88]

canada-what a pathetic little country.

[FatLoser]

I hope the bank isn't implying that it will do financially to it's customers what homosexual men do physically to each other.

[Hoodlum91]

I almost wish my work place would initiate it so I could blatantly NOT post a triangle!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Same here!

[Texans]

"Safe-Space"...OMG...I'm speachless

[Phantom Lord]

"DON'T EVEN DARE THINK THERE IS SUCH A THING AS FREE SPEECH IN THIS WORK PLACE!"

And rightly so.

[BCrago66]

Royal Bank is a private company, so who cares?

[Liberty Valance]

Our cute little 51st state is at it again...

[Gingersnap]

"safe place" for gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and lesbians,"

This is just too much. I guess Canadians are in the habit of pounding GBTL employees to floor in their cubicles. That's against the law where I work.

Now, if "safe" means approval, I guess the Canadians are going in for social fascism.

[NativeNewYorker]

Banks are so heavily regulated, they are arguably a de facto extension of the govt.

[Rodm]

When Sodomites gain total political power they gang rape you and your loved ones. Who will you go to for help? A sodomite police office, a sodomite prosecutor or sodomite judge. They will laugh you to scorn and throw you back out in the street for more abuse.

[rickmichaels]

...homophobia and hostility will not be tolerated within RBC...

But jamming user-fees up customers' asses is perfectly OK.

[unlearner]

"The Safe Space Program is a voluntary program that is designed to provide a non-threatening way for employees to send the message that homophobia and hostility will not be tolerated within RBC," states Rainbow Space newsletter.

Christians should use a picture of Noah's ark with a rainbow as a non-threatening way for employees to send the message that religiphobia and hostility (to free speech) will not be tolerated.

It's not homophobia, it's perversion aversion. And normal people can't help being repulsed by sodomy, we were born that way.

[cryptical]

This would be ok if I could narrow it down. My cubicle is a "safe space" for lesbians. Good looking lesbians.

[subterfuge]

Of course any type of religious artifacts are still prohibited. If you happen to have certain Biblical passages displayed you may even be arrested in O'CanaDuh.

Oh, the Koran is the exception to that.

[smiley]

Display a pretzel instead....that should confuse 'em!

[Phantom Lord]

Our cute little 51st state is at it again...

Canada leads the world in being north of America.