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the state capitol building, where legislators meet annually to mediate the society's conflicts into laws. The issues that have been debated here, therefore are often nothing less than the basic dynamics of social change itself in the past themselves in the backwaters of society who fill our mental

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hospitals, our nursing homes and to those people and too many others that are afflicted with. Um why do you think gay people should have employment rights protections as outlined in the bill that you're going to? I think that gay people ought to have the same rights

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and privileges for employment that anybody else has, and because one chooses to love someone of their own sex or whatever their sexual orientation is, what they do in their own in the privacy of their own home, should have no bearing on the kind of employment they

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ought to have the kind of work they wish to do. I think gay people ought to be treated like anybody else, Black Brown greek or anything else. And uh they're all institutional levels and in both the private and public institutions that

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people are discriminated against based on their sexual orientation and the relationship, a discrimination scenario, um, would be where the individual is uh brought into a room with the administrator, uh administration of an agency is accused of being gay. Uh, usually some sort of proof, either hearsay

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or some sort of background investigation materials presented to the individual and whether they deny the charges or not are dismissed. Okay,