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2008-12-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Calling in 'gay' to work is latest form of protest

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-09 15:26|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Oh, damn, I guess I just won't be able to get my house redecorated on Wednesday!

Posted by Mike 2008-12-09 16:24|| 2008-12-09 16:24|| Front Page Top

#2 You got PTO? Fine. Otherwise, gay or straight, it is a unpaid day. Do it more than once, your ass is fired.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-09 17:08|| 2008-12-09 17:08|| Front Page Top

#3 a day without show tunes, floral shops, dance studios, Film Actors Guild, drama queens in the office? It worked so well for A Day Without A Mexican!

Perhaps they can take their day off and protest black support for Prop *8* in Compton?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-09 17:32|| 2008-12-09 17:32|| Front Page Top

#4 "You have one hour to get your butt here, and you will be working two hours past close of business tonight. Or don't bother coming in, and we'll mail you your stuff."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-09 17:52|| 2008-12-09 17:52|| Front Page Top

#5 So many of the school's 60 teachers were eager to show support for gay rights they had to make sure enough stayed behind to staff classrooms.

Wow. Teachers having an excuse for an extra day off.
Earth shattering....

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-09 18:26|| 2008-12-09 18:26|| Front Page Top

#6 he came up with the name after the film "A Day Without a Mexican" and liked it because it rhymed - so no one feels excluded or threatened.

Geez, how...gay.

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-09 18:31|| 2008-12-09 18:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Not only does this sort of "protest" infuriate me - as a gay guy, I find it humiliating. You don't like the way the voters voted, so you throw an economically destructive tantrum at the expense of your society? Hey, I've got an idea for a response. How about do a better job at work and do a bit more for your community as well - without seeking attention and admiration - to show that we are here for our fellow citizens and will not resort to anti-religious bigotry. How about demonstrating that tolerance and respect are a two-way street by setting an example?

You don't like the way people vote? Maybe you could try winning them over by having open-minded discussions free of insults and ad hominem. A dialogue where your mind might be changed as well as theirs. After all, I'm glad that I was raised by a married mother and father. I think it was important for me to understand how male-female relationships work - even as a gay man - how much more so for my heterosexual siblings. I have no problem with a state deciding that it wants to maintain heterosexual marriage as an ideal for raising the next generation of Americans. If those opposed to this standard want to change the minds of voters, they are free to try. But to react in such a hostile manner because they failed to win enough people over to their side is shameful.

Posted by ryuge 2008-12-09 21:06|| 2008-12-09 21:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Ryuge,

Thanks for posting that. I personally don't give a damn how consenting adults get their sexual jollies. That's their business as long as it doesn't involve minors or illegal force. I am, however, EXTREMELY TIRED of having the homosexual agenda shoved in my face and told I'll either be "tolerant" or else.

As for the "Day without a Gay," my response as an employer would be similar to 'Moose's. Straight, gay, black, white, purple polka-dot, whatever, just get in here and do your damned job as we agreed when you hired on. The workplace is a WORKPLACE, not a venue for political expression. Anyone who can't handle that, there's the door and walking ain't crowded. Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-09 21:39|| 2008-12-09 21:39|| Front Page Top

#9 The tooth fairy called in "Gay" today.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-09 21:47|| 2008-12-09 21:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Ryuge, my thanks as well for a thoughtful comment. I (as most of Californians) welcome equal rights for gays in civil unions. I only have an issue with the term "marriage" and how gay activists and judicial activists have jacked it for their own agenda. Their protests, boycotts, and fascism will undo decades of progress for gays. I'd suggest they get their own in control before a century is lost. Then, of course, Islam will kill em

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-09 21:48|| 2008-12-09 21:48|| Front Page Top

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