Employee reprimanded for talking about gay rights

[davidinalameda]

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=9303&sd=07/17/03

A public library employee in Kansas is challenging her employer's reprimand after she talked openly at work about gay rights following June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down sodomy laws. Bonnie Cuevas, a board member of the Kansas Unity and Pride Alliance and mother of a gay man, said two administrators at the Topeka-Shawnee County Library verbally reprimanded her and told her she was prohibited from discussing gay rights at work. They cited a complaint from a coworker who felt the subject was creating a hostile work environment, she said.

[roguevalley]

1. ah. mustn't have the free flow of ideas in a library

RV, former librarian and daughter of a librarian.

[roguevalley]

2. ah. mustn't have the free flow of ideas in a library

RV, former librarian and daughter of a librarian.

(Since she was talking with a co-worker, they don't
have a leg to stand on. If it had been with a patron,
they might have more strength with their argument.
Kill them, gal.)

[pw]

3. Hostile work environment?

I didn't know that bigots or prudes were a protected class under the constitution.