Fair Play
What to say about the outcome in Rumsfeld v. FAIR?
Mostly, I am sad for my gay and lesbian classmates. Many of them feel hurt by having an employer on campus who won’t even talk to them because of who they are. I’d be hurt by that, too. And I think even if you’re a supporter of the decision, or the DADT policy generally, you ought to admit that (Constitutional or no) the Solomon Amendment really does make a lot of law students feel pretty crappy sometimes. And that makes me feel crappy too.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:43 am
You do not have a right to go through life expecting that others must always refrain from making you feel hurt or crappy. Sorry, but that could easily get out of hand.
I considered just saying ‘grow up,’ but choose not to make you feel even more ‘crappy.’
March 13th, 2006 at 10:04 am
My point wasn’t a legal one. The right that the DADT policy violates (and the Solomon Amendment by extension) is not the made-up variety you lampoon, but the guarantee of Equal Protection afforded to all people by the 5th and 14th Amendments. This is obviously a minority view so far; that will change with time.
I was making a policy point and attempting to communicate that there’s something going on here that harms real people in a real way. Maybe you don’t care, maybe you do. Who knows. If there were a policy in place that prohibited black folks from working in the military and they were offended that the military kept interviewing on their campus, maybe you’d be less flip.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:12 am
The only thing worse than being discriminated against is being told how to fun your business. I have hired straight, gay, all races, and Declined a large P.O. from a major university because they told me I had to hire affirmatively. To hell with anybody to tells me who to hire!
March 15th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I think being discriminated against in hiring is worse than turning down one customer.
April 6th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
I know I am a little late coming into this conversation, but I just felt the need to say something. I think saying “life is unfair” doesn’t excuse bad decsions, or feeling ‘crappy’ about them. It is good for people that are discriminatory to be forced not to act out those discriminatory policies in employment, evne if it means, “being told who to hire” even though I think really that it just means all have equal access to the law, not that you have to hire anyone, you just have to give everyone a chance.