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More than 70 percent of American children are raised by a working single parent or by two parents who both work. Yet parental discrimination in the workplace remains prevalent and often even implicitly accepted, largely because there is no federal law prohibiting it.
A Chicago woman named Dena Lockwood has taken an important step toward solidifying anti-parental discrimination laws. Continue reading »
You may recall the landmark case of Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale, from 2000, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the BSA, being a private organization, has the right to discriminate as it wishes, when it comes to its membership and its volunteer staff. Since that decision was handed down, the Scouts have indeed continued their policy of discriminating against gays and atheists. Since that decision, also, the Boy Scouts have steadily lost many special accommodations and benefits they once enjoyed. Now they’ve lost another.
Like nearly every one of us did way back when, 17-year-old Zikerria Bellamy applied for a job at McDonald’s. Lots of teens appreciate the free food, the experience, and, most of all, the money that comes with the job. Unfortunately, Zikerria wasn’t hired. That wouldn’t be of much interest were it not for the reason she was turned down — Zikerria is transgendered. And if that weren’t bad enough, one of the managers of the restaurant actually called her and left a voice message saying “We don’t hire faggots.”
South Park is a comedy show often accused of being socially irresponsible. The show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, endeavor to make fun of everything and everybody and usually the results are harmless and funny. But one particular episode that first aired in 2005 turned out not to be so funny for some kids. That episode featured one of the show’s characters creating a new holiday called “Kick a Ginger Day.” “Ginger” refers to red-haired, pale-skinned, freckled people and the purpose of the fake holiday is to abuse them. Continue reading »
Picture this: you’re in the store with your partner and your twins. You get up to the cash register and realize you forgot something. So while your sweetie and your kids finish checking out, you run back and grab the forgotten item. Rather than rejoin the line, you quickly check yourself out through a self-service register and meet them at the front of the store.
Happens all the time, right? This is not exactly suspicious behavior.
But when Joe Paolucci and Thomas Hitchcock tried to leave their local Wal-Mart with their boys after doing just that, they were detained by store security.
First, they were asked to show a receipt for the stray item (a pack of Bic lighters) that Joe had gone back into the store to pick up. Fine. He showed them the receipt. Now everyone can go home, right? Wrong. Continue reading »
17-year-old O’Rhonde Chapman likes to wear jumbo gold hoop earrings, long flowing wigs and stiletto heels. So what’s the big deal? To the school administrators of Nimitz High School in Texas, it’s the fact that O’Rhonde was born a “he”. Unhappy with his attire, the school principal recently sent him home.
Swedish researchers are calling for special training after a new study found midwives there treated lesbian patients and pregnant women with male partners differently.
These findings appear in the November issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Ten lesbians from 30 to 46 years of age, all of whom had experienced pregnancy and childbirth in the Swedish healthcare system, were interviewed about the care and treatment they received prenatally, during the birth and afterward. The study concluded that, too often, the midwives focused more on their lesbian patient’s sexuality than the fact that she was expecting a baby. Continue reading »
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