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May. 15th, 2015 10:52 amLGBT and religion at work: a non-hostile person at work asked me how it was ok to make people respect LGBT diversity at work despite their religion. I share my response (sketch)
1) religion is also used to regulate women, today and more in the past, such as prevent them working or dictate their dress - as this is allowed as a religious belief, but is not appropriate to force on women in the workplace, neither is it appropriate to force religions anti-gay rules in the workplace (there is more talk about gender roles in religious texts than gay issues)
2) the "religious freedom" argument is in the news now as a reason to allow discrimination against LGBT; but it's important to note this argument was previously used to justify discrimination on the basis of race, and should be rejected for the same reasons (see, i.e. interracial marriage arguments, in print, made a few short decades ago) (legislative debate records are wonderful things)
(isn't gay different than race?) 3) gay is different than race due to time - once the arguments about not "forcing people against their views" on race was as natural and intuitive as gayish et al not-agreeing-with is today. I hope in 50 years these questions seem as silly about gays as they do today about race.
1) religion is also used to regulate women, today and more in the past, such as prevent them working or dictate their dress - as this is allowed as a religious belief, but is not appropriate to force on women in the workplace, neither is it appropriate to force religions anti-gay rules in the workplace (there is more talk about gender roles in religious texts than gay issues)
2) the "religious freedom" argument is in the news now as a reason to allow discrimination against LGBT; but it's important to note this argument was previously used to justify discrimination on the basis of race, and should be rejected for the same reasons (see, i.e. interracial marriage arguments, in print, made a few short decades ago) (legislative debate records are wonderful things)
(isn't gay different than race?) 3) gay is different than race due to time - once the arguments about not "forcing people against their views" on race was as natural and intuitive as gayish et al not-agreeing-with is today. I hope in 50 years these questions seem as silly about gays as they do today about race.
