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Swede Atlanta

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2. Two thoughts....
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 07:05 PM
Mar 2012

I agree with Bluestateguy that personal experience CAN have a tremendous impact on people's views. Viewing something as abstract, especially if someone was taught or observed negative attitudes toward homosexuality, may allow for perverse and uninformed views. Giving someone a real-life experience with a co-worker, family member, neighbor, church member, etc. can make all the difference in the world.

My view on harassment would be that in an employer-employee relationship, an employer that has economic and other power over the employee, that expresses anti-homosexual views is engaging in harassment. It is bad enough to have fellow employees tell jokes or otherwise express their dislike but the employer would be, in my view, engaging in harassment to express those views openly to the employee or for those views to be openly known in the workplace.

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