Another View

Anchorage is all abuzz about the assembly’s meeting tonight where they will discuss their sexual orientation amendment.

Let me put this real bluntly. I am gay. All four people who directly report to me, the only people who I have the authority to terminate their employment, are breeders (a kinda technical term, only sorta applicable). Do I have the right to fire them because they are in “opposite marriages”? (Thanks, Miss California, you have successfully made it sound totally disgusting.)

I don’t, in Hood River County. God, but in Anchorage. They would be gone so fast your head would spin! (It’s not true. Kathleen, Susan, Jan, Raquel: I love working with you!)

I remember many years ago. I think it was 1979. Dade County, Florida, led by America’s sweetie, Anita Bryant, overturned a gay rights ordinance by popular vote. I told my mother that I hoped there was some gay man or lesbian in Miami, wealthy enough to own an apartment building, who evicted all their straight tenants, because it was legal.

Mom said, “No you don’t. It wouldn’t be right.”

I am so lucky to have had such a wise woman as my mother.