Via Mike Warner at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook "The article by the Leaf Chronicle ... provided in the link below is bigoted to the extreme stating that if we are to attract the best and brightest workers we have to kowtow to their professed "preferences" as if the most talented and brightest among us must all be gay and lesbian. No one should have special status because they make any choice on any particular issue or life style. It is indeed a step backward to presume that anyone declaring anything about their personal life gives them some kind of special status."
CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — When the City Council meets for their voting session in two weeks, they’ll hear an argument for adding sexual orientation and gender identity protections to the city’s anti-discrimination policy. If added, Clarksville would be the fourth major city in Tennessee to include sexual orientation and gender identity in its non-discrimination policy. David Shelton, a local business owner who plans to speak to the City Council about the protections, said that including sexual orientation and gender identity in the discrimination policy is key for attracting the most talented workforce. “It’s a matter of making sure we are recruiting the best employees in each field,” Shelton said. “Especially since we are competing against Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville. If someone is LGBT, then they are going to look to the cities that have those policies.” Even though there haven’t been any reported incidents of discrimination based on sexual orientation against employees, Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project thinks the city should put its principles in writing.
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