This will be an excellent program that would benefit all with an interest in Loudoun County Public Schools. Please encourage those you know to attend.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 2:00-4:00 pm
Silver Spring Civic Building
One Veterans Plaza
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (Click for map)
Presented by the Montgomery County Committee on Hate/Violence and the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights
Detailed information from the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights follows. Continue reading
Can you imagine if a Loudoun Realtor were to argue
that they were helping home buyers make an “informed decision” regarding their home purchase by mouthing derogatory slurs about African-Americans and Jews, and complaining that the local government has required desegregation? Because this is the equivalent of that. Professional Realtors have a code of ethics, in part, due to awareness of how such bigotry has been practiced in the past.
Vivianne Rutkowski is a Realtor with Keller Williams on Catoctin Circle in Leesburg. I have contact information for her Broker and Regional Director, but I don’t want to publish it here. Contact me offline if you wish to communicate with them regarding this matter. Miss Rutkowski is bound by the code of ethics adopted by the National Association of Realtors.
I stumbled by accident across this wildly inappropriate, offensive post (it’s captured as it appeared Wednesday, January 25 at approximately 12:45 am) on her professional real estate business blog. I left a comment indicating that I would make sure no one I know would ever use her as an agent, and telling her why. Here are some screenshots of what she thought was appropriate content for a blog on which she presents herself to the public as a Realtor:
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The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC will perform an outreach concert to celebrate the one year anniversary of Loudoun Out Loud, the only Loudoun County PFLAG support group.
The kick-off celebration of Loudoun Out Loud was actually one year ago yesterday. We have made a lot of progress in Loudoun – but of course the real celebration will begin when support groups are no longer needed, anywhere, for people to just be who they are.
The press release from UUS is below. Continue reading
At what point can we put to rest the soul-killing fantasy that people can or should change who they are in order to please the ignorant? John Smid, yet another long time “ex-gay” spokesman who has recanted, now acknowledges being gay and says that “being LGBTQ is an intrinsic part of a person’s being, not a ‘behavior’ that one can repent from. Writing on the website of his new ministry, Grace Rivers, Smid said, ‘One cannot repent of something that is unchangeable.‘“
For those who say things like “I could care less about what gays do. I’m just sick and tired of hearing about gay rights, etc.”, who don’t understand that full participation in society is not a special right, who for whatever reason still don’t get that anti-gay bullying of children is a specific problem with serious consequences, the upcoming feature length documentary whose trailer is below may help you understand why you continue to hear “about gay rights.” The filmmaker is crowd-sourcing part of the needed funds; you can donate here.
“Anybody who actually believes that prohibiting discrimination against transgender people is going to result in men in dresses lurking in ladies restrooms — even when it has never happened in any jurisdiction where such a law exists — is not just a nut, they are stark raving insane. These people go out, year after year, and give speeches to tell people that something is going to happen when in reality that thing never happens. And so they lie and say it did happen, and keep going.”
Insane? That’s far too gracious. That provides them with an excuse. What they are is stark, raving amoral. Moral abominations. Sociopaths.
This sounds a lot like Loudoun County School Board rhetoric
I’m sorry to say that the key ideas expressed here are echoed in comments made by Bill Fox and other members in their defense of the first action* by the new Loudoun County School Board. Continue reading →