Monday, May 16, 2005

Dubya's House Homophobe

A good, interesting read from the Boston Phoenix via AlterNet this morning, David Berstein reports on Scott Bloch, Dubya's top guy in the Office of Special Counsel (that agency of the Fed which is supposed to protect the rights of federal employees and whistleblowers):

...according to Bloch, who has publicly indicated that he believes the OSC's statute covers discrimination based on off-duty sexual conduct, not on sexual orientation per se. In other words, according to Bloch, discrimination against an employee for having same-sex relationships can be investigated by the OSC, but discrimination against an employee simply for being homosexual cannot, because that is not conduct. This tortured reading of the statute is contrary to White House and OSC interpretation dating to the Reagan administration.

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