Feedback: Gays dont need protection
July 3, 2008 · Updated 10:30 PM
This letter is in response to Diana Buzards Heading toward gay genocide? (Whidbey News-Times, May 11, 2005).
Rejecting the anti-discrimination bill is not the same as advocating discrimination. It is a rejection of special dispensation for a lifestyle choice.
Yes, I am a Christian, but I also have friends involved in the homosexual lifestyle. They know how I feel about it, but they also are aware that I love them regardless. I do not feel they are threat to me, my children or my faith.
I believe that ones lifestyle choice should not be figured into ones qualifications for most jobs, any more than ones race or gender should ever have any bearing on employment. But I do not want to hear the claim of, I wasnt hired because Im gay, like we currently hear, I wasnt hired because Im black, white, Asian, female, male. As soon as such a statement is uttered, any possibility that a person was not hired because they were not qualified is ignored and all attention is focused on the one issue.
As far as the potential for banishment or loss of jobs, income, etc., the overall standard of living amongst gay middle-class men is higher than that of straight middle-class men.
Maybe an anti-discrimination measure should be passed for white, Christian, heterosexual men?
Jen Osburn
Oak Harbor
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