DIVERSITY DAY IN KENTUCKY! (except for you homosexuals)

[pepperbear]

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060411/NEWS01/60411060


Gay protection left out of new anti-discrimination policy
By Deborah Yetter
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The Courier-Journal



FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Ernie Fletcher eliminated a policy Tuesday that protects gay state employees or job applicants from discrimination because of their sexual orientation.

He replaced the 2003 employment policy of his predecessor, former Gov. Paul Patton, with an executive order that bans employment discrimination because of “race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, veteran status and disability.”

It makes no mention of sexual orientation.

Fletcher spokesman Brett Hall said the governor has no intent to discriminate against gay workers.

Rather, the new order -- issued as Fletcher proclaimed “Diversity Day in Kentucky” -- mirrors federal affirmative action policy and is meant to prohibit discrimination against anyone, he said.

*snip*


check out the diversionary tactic he tries to use, equating anti-discrimination laws with affirmative action.

:puke:

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Disgusting

[mitchtv]

2. sniff ,sniff, more tornado weather?

The goodness of Christ just oozes from that state

[BluegrassDem]

6. I live here too...

Please don't get into natural disasters with the earthquakes and mudslides the west coast gets.

[mitchtv]

7. I am really sorry

I know we get that shit, but we have already been condemmed to god's rath by the type that run your state, but I can't help noticing that Karma is a bitch.

[Kutjara]

3. Ain't gonna give no rights...

...to them preverts! Alleleujah! Praise the Lord!

etc etc etc (ad lib to fade)

[rpannier]

4. But if he included Gays

it might be "Too Diverse."

Kind of like Phil Gramm's "Too much budget surplus" comment back in 2001.

[Kutjara]

5. A new concept: Balanced Diversity

Not too much, not too little. Just right. Or is that just Right?

Perhaps we should call it Goldilocks Diversity.