ונצל"ש חשוב:
נכון, זה באנגלית, אבל תעשו מאמץ לפענח מלים קשות ותלכו לחתום על העצומה כאן: http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/petition.cfm (לחילופין, אם אין לכם כח לפענח מלים קשות, סתם תלכו לחתום על העצומה. זה באמת חשוב ומקומם!) Less than a week after Largo City Manager Steve Stanton announced he was transgendered, the small Florida community's city commission fired him. This is workplace discrimination, plain and simple. Click here to sign our 'Stand with Stanton' petition. When the Commission fired Stanton, they ignore d his excellent 14-year record as an energetic and effective leader. Stanton has received consistently positive performance reviews from the City Council and the Mayor while managing over 1,200 employees and the city's $130-million budget. Stanton said, after being fired, "It's just real painful to know that seven days ago I was a good guy and now I have no integrity, I have no trust and most painful, I have no followers." Stanton needs our support. City officials have received hundreds of e-mails about the controversy, most calling for his removal. Together, we can raise our voices to counteract their voices of intolerance -- sign our 'Stand with Stanton' petition today. The promise of America is that if you are a good employee, you should be rewarded for it regardless of your race, creed, disability, gender or sexual orientation. But this basic American promise did NOT carry the day in Largo, Florida. Here are a few quotes from the hearing on Stanton's future: Ron Sanders, pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church of Largo: "If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he'd want [Stanton] terminated. Make no mistake about it." Peggy Schaefer, citizen of Largo, FL: "I don't want that man in office. I don't think we should be paying him $150,000 a year...we don't believe in sex changes or lesbianism. They have their rights, but we do, too." Stanton's firing was an un-American display of workplace discrimination and this injustice should be reversed. Sign our 'Stand with Stanton' petition that we'll deliver to the City Commission in Largo, FL. Sincerely, Gilbert Herdt Director of the N ational Sexuality Resource Center