Quote:This is the point I have been trying to make. The 14th Amendment is not enough to provide protections on its own. Even though it expresses the idea of equality, it was not enough to implement the full meaning of that word.


Therefore, when someone says additional protections are not needed for LGBT person's because of the Constitution, I can knowingly say that is not true. It was not true for black people and it is not true for gay people.


The one positive is that the Constitutional Amendments paved the road for cities to create Human Rights Ordinances, Committees and Commissions which already designate explicit protections against discrimination and rights to public accommodation in such a way that six words are all that is necessary to be added to provide equal (not special or extra) rights to people who are gay or transgender. Because it is so simple a majority of gay American citizens now have equal protection where the live as several local governments have already updated their city's ordinances. Jacksonville is not one of those places (yet). Providing these protections means that these people can focus on being the best employee they can be while bringing their "whole self" to work without fear of unjustified termination. As for terminating underperforming employees .. I know Florida is a right to work state and I have seen plenty of incompetent employees fired with cause by simply being put on a performance management program to encourage them to get up or get out. Based on the amount of layoffs I have seen local employers go through in some rollercoaster years, I wouldn't think getting rid of employees good or bad is as difficult as you make it sound
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And yet again you miss the point.  IF the original law (in this case the 14th Amendment had been followed no additional legislation would have been needed.  SO, instead of passing new legislation why not enforce the original laws?  

 

To go to the next step once you do pass these additional laws you have created a special class of individuals.  To use your own words "I wouldn't think getting rid of employees good or bad is as difficult as you make it sound
"  Go share a beer with a member of any HR employee of any business anywhere in this country.  Ask them how difficult it is to let go of a protected class of people compared to a single white male of equal incompetence.  

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