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      <title>Comments On: Diplomacy Needed
    
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    <author><![CDATA[GWCarver]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Discrimination against our LGBTQ citizens has been going on forever, so the city that is the home of the Civil Rights Museum should put a non-discrimination policy for them in writing. Also, a general policy against ostracizing any individual should accompany it.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:26:53 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I look forward to the day when Memphis finally goes from being a small-minded backwater to a big-minded backwater.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:51:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Branston misses the mark when he views this as a solution in search of a problem. <br>
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A few years back, we managed to attract a talented, highly educated guy to my (non-government) workplace.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Carrie Brown-Smith]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As a professor at the University of Memphis, I regularly hear stories about how our gay students and faculty experience a variety of challenges that range from discrimination to simple cruelty and everything in between. I think it is incredibly naive to think that there is no need to clarify and emphatically state that discrimination is unacceptable in Memphis.
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:53:46 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[CL Mullins]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[..."And a little more diplomacy and a lot less confrontation would serve us well."<br>
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Yeah get that uppity stuff outta here.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:19:18 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[GroveReb84]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[That's just the thing. How would you know if you met a gay person, unless you had an accurate "gaydar", or they announced it to you?<br>
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It's not something most people advertise.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:28:18 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[umcommprof]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[So, over 30 years of covering the city government, you've yet to meet a single openly gay or lesbian city employee. And it doesn't occur to you that this fact might be because of real or perceived threats of discrimination?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:55:52 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Walter White]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As a gay man growing up in Memphis and working at a private employer in Memphis I can here by attest to the fact that discrimination towards gay people exists! In fact I have often been made to feel less human at the work place.
        
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          Walter White]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[ArlingtonPop]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[@Equality<br>
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I am the first to assert that workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong. <br>
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I think that John's point, among others, is simply there is no evidence that such discrimination is evident.<br>
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Or am I wrong about that and such discrimination is going on?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Booker T Washington]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[“Hey, that (gay) civil rights legislation is a solution in search of a problem,” said the  Southern middle-aged conservative white male. I think I’ve heard that one before in like 1964.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:44:02 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Deb]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[There is no protection under the law at the moment. Why would a person file a claim on something that has no legal protection.
        
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          Deb]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:18:56 -0500</pubDate>
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