Written: 8/3/2012
Sometimes I forget that I’m not alone. Not just because Pennsylvania doesn’t have any kind of protections (I can be fired from any company just for being gay and it’s perfectly legal), but the other organizations out there that are just as homophobic as the BSA.
First up, the Salvation Army:
And finally, I’d like Major LaBossiere to explain to my three-year-old daughter how he justifies any of his reprehensible actions in light of the Salvation Army’s pledge to do “the most good.” Because firing someone for being bisexual doesn’t sound like doing “the most good” to me. It sounds like a tragic failure.
And secondly, the gay employees of Chick-Fil-A speak out:
One gay employee who works at Chick-fil-A headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., and asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, says he is getting it from both sides. On the one hand, there is the customer who came in and said he supported Dan Cathy and then “continues to say something truly homophobic, e.g. ‘I’m so glad you don’t support the queers, I can eat in peace,'” the employee, who is 23 and has worked for Chick-fil-A since he was 16, wrote in an email. On the other hand, he continued, “I was yelled at for being a god-loving, conservative, homophobic Christian while walking some food out to a guest in a mall dining room.”
All my best,
The King of Spades
