Rand Paul has a message for you icky homosexuals: keep it in the bedroom, pervs. Stop being all gay at work.
Asked whether employers should be allowed to fire people for being gay, the honking twerp responded “I think, really, the things you do in your house, just leave those in your house and they wouldn’t have to be a part of the workplace, to tell you the truth.”
Got that, gays? Just leave it at home. All you have to do is pretend that you are physically incapable of feeling love or attraction for another human being between the hours of 9 am and 6 pm, five days per week, and we’re all set. Thank you, President Paul.
Did his rhetoric get any worse? I’m glad you asked: yes, of course it did.
“I think society is rapidly changing and that if you are gay, there are plenty of places that will hire you,” he added. How comforting: well, you’ve just been fired from your job of 30 years because you went on a date, but buck up! The Rand Paul Employment Agency has “plenty of places” where you can apply to work!
Just, you know, try not to live in the south, or the midwest, or really most of the west in general. There are about 30 states where you can be fired for falling in love with the wrong person, so if you really want to be safe, you’ll need to move from Louisiana to Oregon. “Plenty of places” indeed!
Anyway, Rand Paul is absolutely correct that a person’s personal, private life has no business intersecting with their professional life. Except if you’re Rand Paul, in which case you not only talk ceaselessly about your heterosexual wife-person, but you also send her out for public appearances on your behalf.
And if you can believe it, he didn’t stop there: providing employment protections, he says, would foster “a whole industry of people who want to sue.”
“So what happens is it sets up a whole industry of people who want to sue. So if you happen to be gay, you get fired, now you have a reason you can sue them.”
Right. Yes. You’re on to us, Rand Paul, you clever little where-are-they-now Sandlot character. That’s been the homosexual agenda all along: go to college for four years, rack up enormous debt, enter the job market, claw our way up the career ladder, and then just at the right moment fag out in the conference room, get fired, and sue everyone for a billion dollars.
That was definitely the plan cooked up by Bev Kearney, who had to leave her coaching job after news of her relationship surfaced. And also Carla Hale, fired from a school for including her partner’s name in a family member’s obituary. And Michael Griffin, fired from his teaching job because his marriage “contradicts the terms of his teaching contract.” And Vandy Beth Glenn, who was fired from the Georgia General Assembly because her transition was “immoral.”
“But it’s almost impossible sometimes — you know, people don’t put up a sign, ‘I’m firing you because you’re gay.’ It’s something that’s very much disputed,” Rand Paul said.
Good grief. How much more of a sign do you need? Peter TerVeer was fired after a supervisor discovered he’d liked some gay-related pages on Facebook, but not before barraging him with Bible quotes about homosexuality. “Very much disputed”?
We already extend employment protection to people on the basis on race or gender or national origin — would Rand Paul take those protections away, too? Would he eliminate laws that make it illegal for businesses to say “no Jews allowed”? Would he bring back segregated lunch counters?
It’s incredible to me that the people who seem to want to run this country have zero apparent interest in learning from its history.