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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyFebruary 9th, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Celebrations This Weekend: Belgian LGBT Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium; Regenbogenball (Rainbow Ball), Vienna, Austria; Whistler Ski Week, Whistler, BC.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
AIDS Employment Discrimination Declared Illegal in California: 1987. In the first such case in the nation, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission unanimously ordered that the defense contractor Raytheon pay damages of about $6,000 to a Santa Barbara employee who was denied reinstatement to work following hospitalization due to an AIDS-related illness. John Chadbourne was given medical leave in December 19983 when he was hospitalized with pneumonia. He was diagnosed with AIDS one month later. He recovered from pneumonia and his doctor said he healthy enough to return to work, but his employer would not reinstate him without assurances that other employees would not be endangered. Instead, Raytheon kept him on medical leave, which meant that he retained his benefits (including medical insurance), but was living on significantly reduced income from his disability insurance. The Commission ruled that AIDS is a disability under the law and employers may not discriminate against people with AIDS who are able to work. With that ruling, Chadbourne was vindicated — or at least his estate was. Chadbourne died in January 1985, two years before the Commission’s ruling.
Raytheon went on to significantly improve its policies toward LGBT people and people with AIDS, becoming the first defense contractor to earn a 100% rating on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index in 2005.
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MattNYC
February 9th, 2012
The Westboro cretins have announced they will be picketing the Washington State funeral of the children of that OUTSTANDING heterosexual marriage that ended with the wife/mother-killing husband/father hacking them and blowing up the house. This is to show Gov. Gregiore that the state’s liberal attitudes towards h-h-h-homosexshuls caused god to attack the mind of a godly man.
MattNYC
February 9th, 2012
Margie Phelps, daughter of the founder of the church, announced the pickets in on Twitter on Wednesday. “This is why God’s cursed you w Josh Powells blowing up kids,” she wrote, referring to the state House’s passage of a gay marriage law on Wednesday.
Antother tweet: “Soldiers die for fag marriage. Josh Powell’s boy’s died for fag marriage.”
MattNYC
February 9th, 2012
Need to go back to my “happy place”…
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