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- From: palepink@lily.arts.com (Suzii Abe)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.politics.homosexuality,co.politics
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- Message-ID: <gVwLuB5w165w@lily.arts.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 20:46:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.154610.652@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo
- >Not really. I used to work as a technician fixing very expensive medical
- >equipment. One important point was that your image should be well accepted
- >by the client because sales were based, in a lot of cases, on references fro
- >previous clients.
- >If some of our clients would have had a problem with Gays, the company
- >would certainly have not send a Gay person to do the job at that particular
- >place.
-
- This is where Miss Manners' dicta regarding the separation of social and
- business life come in.
-
- A technician who visits a client to fix expensive medical equipment
- has no need to discuss anything except medical equipment with that
- customer.
-
- A business which has equipment in need of repair has no time to
- distract a visiting technician with discussions of social life, and
- no legal right to discuss sexual life with anybody paid to be there.
-
- A manufacturer of expensive machinery can reasonably require its
- technicians not to wear Queer Nation t-shirts, Mickey Mouse hats,
- "Take this job and shove it" buttons, or filthy plastic sandals
- when visiting clients.
-
- I do not doubt that there are companies in this country which, when
- making a purchase, send out bid forms to several potential suppliers
- which ask the question, "Do you now, or have you ever, employed a
- homosexual?" I'm sure their receptionists are trained to screen
- all persons entering the building--oh, maybe they ask to see wallet
- photos of the spouse and kids, chat about big plans for the weekend,
- monitor pupil size when the visitor is asked to sign in on a clipboard
- with a "Burn Fags Not Flags" decorative border--before admitting them
- to do business.
-
- I also have a friend whose mother, a wealthyish woman who eats out
- a lot, will stand up and leave even her favorite restaurants if a
- black person comes to serve her. These restaurants have not gone
- out of business at any greater rate than any others. (It's lucky
- for her she lives in Salt Lake--anywhere else, and she might have
- to learn to cook.)
-
- --Suzii.
- palepink@lily.arts.com
-