I'm an educator and I understand what these tweets are about. Not all parents are the same and some children are victims of domestic abuse. Physical abuse is "easy" to deal with (if you consistently see injuries you can bring it up with a parent/the state), but emotional and verbal abuse are their own animals. So many children ONLY have a safe space at school. The parents who are most upset about that typically are the ones who are the most needlessly rigid.
Sorry y'all but this is where the line is drawn for me. You wear a seatbelt in your best interest and in the interest of anyone for whom you may turn into a projectile upon a severe car crash. Unless you have some sort of extreme anxiety or a health issue that prevents you from breathing properly, wear a mask, stop the spread of covid-19.
The US is 2% of the world population and 25% of covid-19 cases. I'm sick and tired of the extreme selfishness of the Right on this. I support Trump in many, many ways, but this is simply not one of them.
It's a very gray area at times. On the one hand, I totally agree — religious institutions should not be prosecuted for holding up their beliefs. I'm gay and I totally understand if a Church didn't want to hire me as a teacher, for instance. However, the same openness to discrimination of hiring/firing lends itself directly to concepts like deplatforming conservatives on social media.
So we either accept that anybody can be fired for or discriminated against for any affiliation or we protect all classes. It's very hard to make the case for the middle ground because everyone has their own agenda.
Yup! This only affects blatant discrimination based on gender bending (lol) or sexual orientation.
As someone on the other end of the stick (not a sexual pun, I swear) who actually lost his job for being gay a few years back, I'm really glad the ruling occurred. My documentation meant nothing due to the lack of protections, but if the same thing would have happened today, I would have either been reinstated in my position or compensated for my losses.
I legitimately lost my job in rural Arkansas for being a gay atheist in 2015. There was zero legal recourse, even after seeing 7 different lawyers. Anyone who believes this ruling was unnecessary hasn't lived through that sort of oppression. Period.
Thank you for being the voice of reason. All this does is protect people who are at risk of losing employment due to their orientation or sexual identity. If you're an asshole on the job and have a record, you still get fired!
Sad times that people don't get that this mindset would apply to them too. It's the same reason right wingers get deplatformed. But they don't realize how stupid they sound when you say "MUH GAY CAKE!" Like, you can deny business to everyone or no one, there's no case for any in-between. So, everyone in America should be able to be served or else we go full tribalism.
Happened to me!