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I totally agree. Also, after thinking about this for a few minutes, I realized that talking about
any relationship in any workplace is actually not a great idea. I have worked for companies that
had policies right in the employee handbook stating that employees were to refrain from personal
conversation. I do think that is carrying it a bit far, but the truth is, in the workplace (I only
know about the civilian workplace), what one confides in a coworker can become distorted, repeated
to people who were not intended to hear the information and is, in general, not great for
productivity. Being friendly with coworkers is a good thing, but unless one is close friends with a
coworker and knows them very well, there are many people out there who love to start office gossip
and cause trouble.
Regardless, if one does wish to discuss their personal life, it should not matter to anyone what
their sexual orientation is. It is a disturbing thought that a group of society has to be guarded
about their personal life or risk their job. I really have no idea about what the military protocol
is for this, but I think that in the civilian population that would be considered discrimination.
It seems to me that society isn't happy unless there is a group of people that they can discriminate
against. Hopefully, as the younger generation reaches adulthood, we will see more tolerance. |
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Wow, what a brilliant idea. I agree. Also, preventing only gays from talking about their
relationships tells you who is gay, simply by doing a little subtractive deduction.. |
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Yes I agree with muin13, I do not like the way the policy treats gay people. I have heard some
terrible stories about people who have been on the recieving end of that policy out of America. The
policy should be toned down and then applied to everyone, if one group is not allowed to talk about
their partners then it should apply to everyone. I don't think however anyone should be dishourably
discharged for who they are or whom they are with. American should take a lesson from the rest of
the western world and just scrap the whole policy in my opinion. |
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I'm going to assume that this is an American policy and move on to say your country has some really
odd laws and porotocol, however I agree whole heartedly, the policy should either be removed from
affect of be widened to cover all sexual prefernces: Gay, lesbian, Bisexual, straight and
transgender. Otherwise it would be like saying talk about your sweethearts as long as they are not
black. Its totally insane. |
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Ha, actually I think that's a pretty reasonable argument. Naturally people won't want to comply
with it, they'll want to talk about it, which is exactly why it shouldn't be forbidden for gays to
talk about it in the military too due to threat of persecution or discharge. Also frankly I always
wondered why don't ask don't tell wasn't considered a violation of the rights to freedom of
expression. |
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10 Jun 2009 10:26
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