Fired University of Toledo Human Resources claims a "divine mandate" in her Attack on LGBT people
Posted on May 17, 2008
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Fired University of Toledo Human Resources Administrator Crystal Dixon now claims her column attacking gay and lesbians was in response to a “divine mandate” to speak out against homosexuality.
Dixon was dismissed after a recently column in the Toledo Free Press on homosexuality. Actually, what she wrote was: “As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are “civil rights victims.”’
She continues: “Daily, thousands of homosexuals make a life decision to leave the gay lifestyle evidenced by the growing population of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex Gays) and Exodus International just to name a few. Frequently, the individuals report that the impetus to their change of heart and lifestyle was a transformative experience with God; a realization that their choice of same-sex practices wreaked havoc in their psychological and physical lives.”
Now her lawyer says Dixon will file a lawsuit claiming violation of her First Amendment rights to free speech along with racial and religious discrimination.
Dixon says the newspaper article was a personal mater. But her employer disagreed, noting a newspaper article is by definition a pubic act. How could Dixon serve as a Human Resources administrator responsible for insuring compliance with non-discrimination standards that protect gay and lesbian employees?
Would Dixon expect a white male who wrote a newspaper article supporting the Klu Klux Klan and worked as her new boss to hold on to his job?
Dixon seems to say the difference is that gay can change but that ” cannot wake up tomorrow and not be a Black woman. I am genetically and biologically a Black woman” and cannot change.
But that assumes LGBT people can change – and there’s little peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support her belief.
It also assumes that civil rights only apply to characteristics that cannot be changed. If Dixon were right – and she is not – then it would be OK to discriminate against a Jew or a Muslim or even a member of Dixon’s “End Time Christian Fellowship Church.”
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