Jack-ass extrodinare Bob McDonnell has put up a large middle finger at gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people in his state, as well as all people of any orientation with half a heart towards treating their fellow human being decently. This was is now-infamous removal of LGBT labels from state anti-discrimination laws.

Now, his very own mini-me, Ken Cuccinelli, is exercising his own middle-finger muscles by actually instructing state colleges that holding their own anti-discrimination rules that include LGBT individuals under a protected class is illegal, circumventing the letter of the law that was changed in February.

This made me think a new thought: why do we have to explicitly protect individual categories, when we could explicitly list what reasons can be terminating offenses? Turn the rule of the law backwards and make it much harder to discriminate. Force legislators to spell out "Please discriminate against these people" instead of hiding under the mask of giving employers their own choices. In other words, if you're not breaking the law and you're completing your job per its requirements, then it should be illegal to fire you.

 

We've been reduced to name calling of the most fearful kind. We throw
insults of "socialist" and "fascist" at each other, while vultures
pick at the carcass we're all hiding inside. (The carcass is society
cause I'm a literary master like that) When you amplify the fear in
our hearts, we don't even look past the first word screamed. Tea Party
people will spew hatred at the suggestion that a rival is a god damned
socialist sooner than they're do a minute of research into the tenants
of socialism and why anyone would find it a beneficial set of
approaches to governing a people. Meanwhile, on my liberal side,
conservatives are seen as so uniformly crazy that we won't listen to
anything they have to say. They're all just nut job fundies, after
all. Meanwhile, it doesn't matter if our politicians give a cut of
their bribe money to the donkey or the elephant, they all get in the
same line when the corporations call.

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