Harassment regarding the job
Mary Jo Davis had high hopes whenever she accepted employment offer aided by the Radiology Department of Pullman Memorial Hospital in Whitman County, Washington. All that changed after her supervising physician discovered she ended up being a lesbian. The physician began calling her a “dyke” and “faggot, ” and would not make use of her and on occasion even talk with her. Whenever Mary Jo protested this harassment, she had been fired. Represented because of the ACLU’s Lesbian and Gay Rights venture, Mary Jo hopes to determine that general general general public workers have a right that is constitutional reduce discrimination and harassment at work.
Sodomy and Homophobia
David Weigand could just take it no further. Their son ended up being surviving in the house of their wife that is former using the child’s stepfather – a convicted felon with a consuming and drug issue who was simply beating their wife when you look at the existence of this youngster. Things got so very bad that the child needed to phone 911 to save lots of their mother’s life, and also as a total outcome of all of the physical violence, the household ended up being finally evicted from their house.
David asked a Mississippi family members court to provide him custody of their son. The court declined to do this, in essence stating that surviving in house wracked with physical violence ended up being better than living with a daddy that is homosexual and “commits sodomy. ” The ACLU will continue fighting on behalf of lesbian and gay parents, and to eliminate state sodomy laws in addition to representing David before the Mississippi Supreme Court.