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Expanding Pride To Our Workplaces, Eric C. Christiansen Jun 2015

Expanding Pride To Our Workplaces, Eric C. Christiansen

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As business leaders. we need to recognize that our policies, our workplace culture and our institutional ethos radically impact the lived experience of equality for our LGBT customers and employees. In a discriminatory world, passivity (i.e .. just ensuring you don't actively discriminate) can easily send a mixed or unintended message. Even in progressive places like the San Francisco Bay Area, LGBT folks have an experience of discrimination and disfavor that shapes their expectations.


Ready For Marriage? Evaluating The Supreme Court's Obergefell Arguments Like A Pro, Eric C. Christiansen Apr 2015

Ready For Marriage? Evaluating The Supreme Court's Obergefell Arguments Like A Pro, Eric C. Christiansen

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Amateur constitutional law gurus, rejoice! Marriage equality advocates and marriage traditionalists, warm up your commenting keyboards! And, secret Supreme Court junkies, put on your “Notorious RBG” t-shirts and rehearse your favorite Justice Scalia quote! On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court will hear two and a half hours of arguments on whether the U.S. Constitution permits states to exclude same-sex couples from the rights and responsibilities of marriage. The case, Obergefell v. Hodges, is the most eagerly anticipated case of the Court’s current term. And, unlike the last time this court faced the marriage issue, the Justices have very …