Comments on: Gay Pride posters defaced at Dept. of Labor

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:30:45 +0000

No state has more narrow-minded , dull, homophobic hypocrites than Virginia. It was probably someone from there. It is probably the most anti-gay state. Don’t
spend your money there!

By: warren

warren — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:03:30 +0000

how about view the surveillance camera’s and charging those involved with defacing public property.

By: VoteSmart

VoteSmart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:39:12 +0000

I have no criticisms about the current federal labor department secretary. But I have big issue with Bradstreet-DLSE. She is an insult to gay’s community. She must be an ex-lesbian or lesbian for her political self-interest. How can she call herself a democrat when she knees down to the republican governor, arnie? Gay’s community also watch out of Jerry B. He only wants gay’s votes. Vote smart; vote for Mr. Newsome for Californian Governor.

By: William

William — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:57:14 +0000

Don’t they have surveillance cameras in the elevators, as in most public buildings, hotels, etc.? Should not be hard to find the culprits.

By: Lice-Christ

Lice-Christ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:17:37 +0000

Why doesn’t Solis threaten FIRING anyone who could be proven to have removed one of those posters? It seems like she’s saying it’s appropriate behavior on the part of the homophobes to destroy public property and remove those posters by saying all she will do is replace the posters as soon as they are found missing. What’s going on here? She seems to indicate that she simply has another ‘point of view’ on this issue. This is very bad.. Why is not a more punitive stance being takeno on her part against these people defacing public information and public property? By the way, these are the old Bushies who long since should have been fired in one massive termination. Evangelical Republicans have infested every governmental agency (since Bush) in HUGE numbers and should be terminated – one by one – until every last one of those stinking pieces of Christian shit are unemployed.

By: David in Dallas

David in Dallas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:03:45 +0000

Should we really expect anything different. When Obama spews the crap about DOMA, or Congress fails to pass a hate crimes law, those ignorant folks that hate us are emboldened to act against us. I work at the corporate HDQ of a fortune 500 company. During a recent Pride display, our posters were stolen.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:36:21 +0000

Does HIlda Solis know if one is involved or more than one? Or is she just using a common figure of speech without knowing for sure that more than one did this?

Is more than one person being automatically painted as “a bad apple” without known facts in mind?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:12:47 +0000

It’s easy to pick some group to focus ire on when this sort of thing happens. Keep in mind that many who work in Washington DC commute from either Maryland or Virginia (as well as from within DC) so it’s just as easy to point the finger at them as it is to decide that some other identifiable group is responsible for this sort of vandalism. However, I’d suggest that no single group has a lock on either stupidity or bigotry (even among our own community I have encountered no shortage of the spectacularly prejudiced). Jerks are jerks and homophobes are homophobes. Whatever other group they might come from is beside the point. As a federal employee myself I would expect more professional (not to mention adult) behavior from my peers but as usual, my peers never fail to disappoint me in that respect.

By: ALAN

ALAN — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:58:07 +0000

I wonder how these same people that are doing the defacing would feel that if others defaced posters about Easter, Christmas or even Black Pride Month?

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:42:18 +0000

Sarah thanks for the good news about professionalism alive and well in the NY State Dept. of Labor. Hard to, never mind, easy to believe the silly spoilers are the norm. Not always the case.