No, I’m sorry. I misread it. It’s Kbells (sic throughout):
I kind of have a problem with discrimination laws in general. Is it really the Governments business who I hire or rent to? Theses laws have some employers reluctant to hire minorities in vital positions because they are afraid that if it doesn’t work out they won’t be able to fire them without a lawsuit. I’ve known employers who will reserve a harmless, dead end job for the minority employee. They will also try to double up by hiring a black woman making it harder for a black men to get hired. Now they will have to hire a gay, black woman.
I always thought people should be hired because they are the best qualified, not because an employer needs to meet some quota “equal opportunity” malarky. On the flip side, a crap ass effort can be given by anyone on any job. To assume you’ve been sacked because of your ethnicity rather than anything you haven’t (but were supposed to have) done is like putting the cart before the horse, isn’t it? Or am I having a hard time approaching this because I’m a white lower-class French-German-Irish-Canadian right-handed, brown-haired, eyeglass-wearing woman?
Oh, to have a world not built for sorting folks into labels… what a world it could be.
Anyway, the quote is under an article at WorldMag which reports on a successful gay rights issue being supported and approved by Mormons in Utah – the right to housing and employment:
Passage made Salt Lake City the first Utah community to prohibit bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Under the two new ordinances, it is illegal to fire someone from their job or evict someone from their residence because they are lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender.
The gay community of Utah is willing to tick the win column on this one and why not?
“What happened here tonight I do believe is a historic event,” said Brandie Balken, director of the gay rights advocacy group Equality Utah. “I think it establishes that we can stand together on common ground that we don’t have to agree on everything, but there are lot of things that we can work on and be allies.”
God will, of course, still strike them down if they dare try to get married, but I suppose it’s a start.
“The church supports these ordinances because they are fair and reasonable and do not do violence to the institution of marriage,” Michael Otterson, the director of public affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said.
Yes, gay marriage has the power to do violence. I had no idea. The love is that amazing, eh? They’ll actually destroy an institution with it. Wow. Makes me think the institution of marriage isn’t built very well, if that’s the case. And how many wives can Mormons have again? But exceptions are only good when they’re in your favour. Right…
November 12, 2009 at 10:49 am
well, it’s a start. at least the state is now telling the landlords that it’s not okay to not rent the apartment to someone because of their same-sex preference. ain’t it absurd that someone’s sexuality has anything to do with good tenancy, among other things.
so how many wives can a mormon have?
imagine no religion.
November 12, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I get that landlords might want to restrict pets or cater to seniors. Dad was a carpet layer. He has more than a few stories of what pets do to floors. And seniors have health and mobility considerations. Choosing not to rent to young families or whatever is mean, but whatever. Could be noise issues, accident fears, who knows.
Saskatoon has a few buildings in low rent/bad neighbourhoods that are advertised as dry because they don’t want to deal with any booze related issues like partying or noise or destruction of property. Some of those places seem to have cops stopping in every night anyway, so it’s not just liquor use that’s a problem…
But I don’t like the idea that who you sleep with will have a direct correlation to whether or not you can live somewhere. I had no idea that was going on anywhere.
Obviously my ignorance is a comfort zone…