A prs release om the Natnal Gay & Lbian Task Force addrsg Cracker Barrel's anti-gay policy and the LGBT muny's reactn to the discrimatn.
Contents:
- COMPANY OTS GAY WORKERS, THEN RENSIRS
- FLORIDA MAN SU CRACKER BARREL, CLAIMS GAY DISCRIMATN
- [PRS RELEASE: CRACKER BARREL'S ANTI-GAY POLICY]
- “BIGOTRY WAS THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL”: HOW CRACKER BARREL WENT OM ANTI-GAY TO ANGERG THE GOP
- GAY RIGHTS GROUPS TAKE AIM AT RTRANT CHA THAT'S HOT ON WALL STREET
- A FIGHT OVER GAY EMPLOYE WILL ALMOST CERTALY H THE SUPREME COURT
COMPANY OTS GAY WORKERS, THEN RENSIRS
Wh Ameri's top urt strikg down key portns of the Defense of Marriage Act and the ary repealg s "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy recently, you'd thk that gay people this untry would tch a break at work. But not John Bostick apparently, an employee at a Branton Crack... * cracker barrel discrimination gay *
Pani on their polici toward gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr employe, nsumers and vtors. Of Bethda, Md., announced two weeks ago that would add sexual orientatn to s non-discrimatn policy and beg to provi health surance benefs to gay employe' domtic partners. ” At least ne gay employe were fired, the New York Tim reported Febary 1991.
FLORIDA MAN SU CRACKER BARREL, CLAIMS GAY DISCRIMATN
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The policy was attacked by gay rights activists. Robert Bray, spokman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, said the policy was unprecented bee while other pani would try to disguise termatn of gay employe, Cracker Barrel “dified and stutnalized bigotry and discrimatn.
” By March 1991, founr Dan Evs had apologized and said the pany had gotten rid of the policy, though Cracker Barrel’s board would not vote to ban discrimatn agast gay employe until 2002.
[PRS RELEASE: CRACKER BARREL'S ANTI-GAY POLICY]
In 1991, Cracker Barrel had a policy allowg managers to fire gay employe.
“BIGOTRY WAS THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL”: HOW CRACKER BARREL WENT OM ANTI-GAY TO ANGERG THE GOP
At least 11 gay and lbian employe were fired unr the policy.
New York be the sixth state to bar gay & transgenr ‘panic’ fens for murr. Gog public about firg gay employe. Cracker Barrel was hirg 1991, but thanks to a newly implemented HR policy, they were only hirg people who weren't gay.
The policy didn't jt forbid hirg gay employe, but they also fired at least ne current employe bee of their sexual orientatn. In 2013, Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson went on rerd wh some serly ntroversial anti-gay ments that led to his spensn om the show. They weighed on the si of everyone who was offend by the remarks and Robertson's anti-gay rhetoric.
GAY RIGHTS GROUPS TAKE AIM AT RTRANT CHA THAT'S HOT ON WALL STREET
It said would no longer employ homosexuals, and at least ne gay employe were Evs, chairman of the pany, was quoted today The Tennsean Nashville as sayg the policy had been rcd.
" First Time to See DiscrimatnAbout 200 south, Tifton, Ga., Wylie Petty, 21, had been a waer at the Cracker Barrel off Interstate 75 until last week, when he was dismissed for beg gay.
A FIGHT OVER GAY EMPLOYE WILL ALMOST CERTALY H THE SUPREME COURT
"I told them I was gay two weeks after I was hired a year and half ago, " Mr. "Lynn Cothren, chairman of the Atlanta chapter of Queer Natn, a gay rights group, said ne Cracker Barrel employe had notified his anizatn of their the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force strongly protted Cracker Barrel's policy sce learng of om gay managers at the pany, civil liberti lawyers said there was ltle they uld do most stat to stop such hirg practic. "It's outrageo and credible, " said William Rubenste, director of the Lbian and Gay Rights Project for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, "but 's fair to say that as a general matter would be very difficult to challenge the discharg other than one of those plac where there is a law specifilly prohibg .