Ohio family advocate says governor boosting 'gay rights'
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
May 22, 2007
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland signed an executive order last week that added "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the non-discrimination policy for current or potential state employees. One of the state's most well-known pro-family activists says the move was an effort to help homosexual activists lay groundwork for the legislative process.
The order addresses discrimination based on "gender identity" and "actual or perceived" homosexuality. Phil Burress of Citizens for Community Values (CCV) says there are at least two problems with those definitions -- first, there is no definitive test for homosexuality; and secondly, the word "perceived" addresses what people think.
The latter causes Burress to ask: "So we're going to be suing people because of what someone was thinking?"
Those were the kinds of inconsistencies the CCV spokesman says led Strickland's predecessor, Bob Taft, not to renew a similar executive order signed by his predecessor; thereby leaving the policy out of state employment issues for eight years. Until, says Burress, Strickland -- whom he calls a "liberal Democrat governor" -- decided to try and change people's attitudes toward making new state law down the road.
"Really the reason why they're doing this," remarks Burress, "is because they're going to want to introduce legislation in the state of Ohio to make this mandatory even in the private industry."
Burress explains that his organization has been unable to find one case in his state or elsewhere in the United States in which discrimination because of sexual gender or identity in employment-related cases has been proven. For him that makes Governor Strickland's new executive order very suspect.
Burress believes it is likely a move to help homosexual activists, who hope to eventually get a law passed through the state legislature that codifies special rights for them because of their sexual orientation.
"This is really just a stepping stone; this isn't about discrimination," Burress offers. "This is about furthering the homosexual agenda -- and the end result of the agenda, under the stair-step approach to this, is to get people used to thinking about sexual orientation as a minority class."
The pro-family activist claims that is so that some day "they can force their behavior on all of us."
OneNewsNow.com
May 22, 2007
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland signed an executive order last week that added "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the non-discrimination policy for current or potential state employees. One of the state's most well-known pro-family activists says the move was an effort to help homosexual activists lay groundwork for the legislative process.
The order addresses discrimination based on "gender identity" and "actual or perceived" homosexuality. Phil Burress of Citizens for Community Values (CCV) says there are at least two problems with those definitions -- first, there is no definitive test for homosexuality; and secondly, the word "perceived" addresses what people think.
The latter causes Burress to ask: "So we're going to be suing people because of what someone was thinking?"
Those were the kinds of inconsistencies the CCV spokesman says led Strickland's predecessor, Bob Taft, not to renew a similar executive order signed by his predecessor; thereby leaving the policy out of state employment issues for eight years. Until, says Burress, Strickland -- whom he calls a "liberal Democrat governor" -- decided to try and change people's attitudes toward making new state law down the road.
"Really the reason why they're doing this," remarks Burress, "is because they're going to want to introduce legislation in the state of Ohio to make this mandatory even in the private industry."
Burress explains that his organization has been unable to find one case in his state or elsewhere in the United States in which discrimination because of sexual gender or identity in employment-related cases has been proven. For him that makes Governor Strickland's new executive order very suspect.
Burress believes it is likely a move to help homosexual activists, who hope to eventually get a law passed through the state legislature that codifies special rights for them because of their sexual orientation.
"This is really just a stepping stone; this isn't about discrimination," Burress offers. "This is about furthering the homosexual agenda -- and the end result of the agenda, under the stair-step approach to this, is to get people used to thinking about sexual orientation as a minority class."
The pro-family activist claims that is so that some day "they can force their behavior on all of us."
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