Is Nashville finally ready to ban workplace discrimination against gay and lesbian city workers? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.

And at long last the separate restroom facilities for gay & straight will disappear. The separate water fountains for gay & straight employees will be a thing of the past. No more signs over front entrances which say "straights-only" with gays being directed to a back door.

And no more will homosexuals be fired at the slightest mention of their sexual orientation or confined to low-paying dead-end jobs and barred from promotions or the status of supervisors...

What?
Those things weren't happpening?

But hasn't there been rampant discrimination against gays by metro government?

Isn't this the "moral issue of our time?"

hmmm...

I guess the folks at Metro & the Scene need another fake issue to pretend to be courageous about...

Any idiot that believes homosexuality and pedophilia and beastiality are equal needs to be put away with long hours of psychotherapy. Anyone who uses God as an excuse to discriminate against anyone else is lying to themselves and to God.

Stop letting the fake Christians and the zealots run Tennessee. They try to use scare tactics that have been used for hundreds of years and finally people are catching on.Any discrimination is wrong.

Bobby, quit looking at my butt, you're disgusting!

Non-discriminatory laws infer that the government can intervene into a private corporation or business and force them into hiring all classes of people. Trespassing laws keep undesirables off one's property that they choose not to associate with. By extension, a company or corporation has the same rights as individuals holding title to the company. As a private entity, it has the right to choose with whom it will associate and when. The 1st and 14th amendment intends that the property owner has rights of association, assembly, and speech in regards to his property, possessions, business, etc. This negates the hiring of certain classes of individuals if so desired. The government does not own a person or the extension; a company or corporation. Since 1964, the Civil Rights Act has allowed a 'slippery-slope' in this area to include all forms of behavior to be accepted by law. The emphasis on 'group rights' strips away individual rights. By implication, the government is stealing jurisdiction from individuals and their extensions of business. By altering the original intent of the Civil Rights Act to include behavior along with race, the door is open for forced acceptance of all types of behavior. Where does one draw the line if we use arbitrary ethics as our foundation for truth?

I'm not surprise the article had nothing on Crafton other then the voting down english only. I'm mean we all know where he stands on discrimination.

Wow. So Nashville is officially going to sanction the barbaric practice of sodomy. Alright, I read the posts and it looks like you need some definitions:

Sex is the highly exclusive term for intercourse between a man and a woman.

Sodomy is any behavior which imitates sexual intercourse but excludes the intercoital sexual act between a man and a woman. It includes oral and anal sodomy, even between a man and a woman. It is a sexual engagement because it imitates the sexual act, it involves the sex organs, but it is not sex. It is sodomy. It is emanantly depraved because the act itself is predicated by selfish arrogance causing humiliation by subduing the person's spirit to the flesh, instead of the oblation of life giving humility fulfilled in the act of love. To wit, the fulfillment of love is the union of flesh and spirit, as identified in the observance of the Holy Trinity, and the witness of the Incarnate Word. Marriage itself, made complete by the act of sex, is also witness to this. Marriage, as Saint Paul wrote ought to be, for each and every married couple, a foreshadowing of Heaven. In this sense it is a beautiful mystery and a great Sacrament, for a Sacrament, as a symbol, points to what is greater, and that is the full communion of Heaven! Sodomy takes beauty, destroys it, and replaces it with pain that is spiritual, psychological, social and physical. In contrast, the Scriptures, begin and end with a marriage. There is first the marriage of Adam and Eve in genesis, and there is the marriage of God and His Church in the Revelation of John. In the Old Testament, there is the story of how God's people are blessed when they live up to this vocation, and how they curse themselves by turning their back on God's plan for humanity. In the Gospel's we witness how God's love can be present in us when we conceive of the Holy Spirit in ourselves and bring God's work to fulfillment each and every day by making the choice to live according to His Word. And Finally, in the New Testament, we are taught to live "Emmanuel-ly", that is, God with us, to carry out God's plan for the dignity of all human being, waiting in hope for the day of our own ascension or resurrection into heaven, depending on what day that is.

Beastiality is not an act. It is a premise. "-alities" are not acts. They are descriptive references for patterns of behaviors. Beast-iality describes a person's disposition for sodomy with an animal. Any sexual engagement between a human and an animal is still sodomy.

Yes, there are many fake Christians out there. Most of them are on TV though, a pretty safe distance away. Most pentecostal preachers, preaching from their corner of the shopping mall, are pretty bad at theology too. And yes, there are many who will preach fear, but it is a healthy fear, not an irrational fear. Not all fear is irrational. Not like the gays, who live in constant anxiety. This kind of anxiety is a physiological response to self-contradiction.

This message, however, is not that. This message is a message of love. Love is not the same as tolerance. And no, not every act of discrimination is wrong. It is right to discriminate against pedophilies! And sodomy, being deprave in its nature, ought also to be discriminated against. But this is not a case of hate the sin, love the sinner. If anyone does evil, they can be forgiven. But if anyone promotes the conduct of evil, they ought to be cast ought and left for the Devil. Now HOW, the gays might say, is THIS love! It is love for those who will be affected by their ordinance. To protect those who do God's will by living faithfully according to His Word and His promise of salvation. To see an example of how we ought to deal with people who attempt to counter God's Word, see the book of Titus and that of 1 Corinthians. We must love our brothers and sisters SO MUCH that we cannot sit idly while corruptors slowly corrugate the fabric of our Christian virtue in order to destroy Christian hope.

Saint Paul rightly says, if you want to live as Christians, then first you must "GIRD YOUR LOINS".Please, people, let us discern more carefully, the people we are permitting to vote for us. Consider this article by the Nashville Scandal as a WARNING.

Remember that in Genesis, the senational Western version of the fall of Eve says that 'the devil was more cunning'. But the Hebrew text actually says, "The devil was more subtle". You're not always going to SEE the slow and steady erosion of virtue. They'll pluck at your faith poco-a-poco, that is, little-by-little.

It is right to fear that this path, not could, but will someday lead to Christian morals becoming outlawed in the name of tolerance. Do NOT tolerate it. Do NOT accept it. Why should anyone tolerate evil? Just because it is a workplace is not sufficient.

I took a sales course once when I was 19 years old. I remember so clearly what the instructor said: In the matter of opinion, either they will sell you, or you will sell them. To wit, I implore your faith to become a living witness, as living "martyrs". [Martyr is the Greek word for Witness]

Over time, either they will convince you that your Christian morals are not worthy, or you will convince them that their disordered loves do not merit sanction. To be sure, it is a fight to the death. Either you will suffer the eternal death having lost your faith as a people not reared in faith, or they will die to their disordered passions, to themselves, and to the world, to be born again in the life and the church of Christ, to live life to its fullest, to live in communion [not fellowship, that's just a really weak word choice].

Agreed.

Do not try to "bend" Christ to suit your own sense of virtue. Instead, bend yourself to suit Christ.

I wish I knew the idiot who decided that sexual orientation was equal to a civil right. They are not the same. CIVIL RIGHTS were created so EVERYONE had the same opportunities as EVERYONE else. You know that portion of a job application that ask's if your Black/White/Hispanic/
Veteran/Disabled/Male/Female; also know as AFFIRMATIVE ACTION? Well, there's a reason GLBT is NOT listed: it's not visible. Civil Rights protect VISUAL discrimination; meaning no one has a right to fire you for being the only white guy in the room with 2 leg's, one arm and half a belly button. Being gay is an ACT: in order for someone to know another is gay, it has to be performed or shown. I CAN'T tell someone unless you SHOW me. If the behaviour is kept at bay, the rest of the workplace will never know their fellow employee is a homo. And if you live in the same world as me, most people don't care. I don't know who these people are that do care; I don't associate with them. However, if anyone is harassed for their sexual identity, THEN AND ONLY THEN are they protected by law. ASSUMING that one will be harassed because they are gay seems to be the reason for trying to pass a bill under the codename "civil right". Sexual orientation is a choice; one can choose to sleep with men, women or both. It's a choice to be gay just as much as it's a choice to be straight. (yeah, I said it: HETEROSEXUALITY is a CHOICE.)

Jeff woods--your article reeks of the usual justifications for all liberal "causes". It is obvious you look upon any group that has moral standards as stupid, ignorant, uninformed and predjudiced. You deride religous people, preachers and no doubt rabbis, who resent the encroachment
upon their concepts of life. Homosexuals do not need a special law to protect them against discrimination. Existing laws protect all people, racial, ethnic, social, against discrimination. These socially aberrant groups are determined to force their ideas and way of life upon everyone. I expect if I live long enough to, see this same group demand that a certain percent of the population be forced to become members of what is known in their community as the "queer nation". I personally resent their agenda, I resent the government spending time and money considering such an unnecessary law, and if it is installed, I personally will campaign and vote against every council member that votes for it. I know You will condemn this as a "hate" letter, and I do not expect you to print this comment, but that's alright, i will still continue to resist this "special interest group", that is becoming more intrusive in the political arena every day.

With the Term on discriminating Lesbians, I am against it.

I love Lesbians and I think that Lesbians should have the same civil rights as any other couple.

A lesbians should have all type of job opportunity, free welfare, free education and any free social benefits.

Besides the fact, Nashville Tennessee will have a high increase of population moving to Nashville if Lesbians are treated as any other couple in Nashville Tennessee.

Few Years ago I visited a community in California full of Lesbians, and that community had a tourist site and many people did pay a visit to that community and loved it. All I know is were there are lesbians, you have a positive running economy like New York City and many people come to love that City .

I say, Nashville Tennessee, treat these lesbians as any other couple and legalize Lesbian marriage and social benefit for these Lesbians.