By: jocko

jocko — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:06:03 +0000

Great peril? Sounds like another left wing extremist alarm being sounded to me.
Well, my thanks to the Homosexual Human Rights Campaign for providing a very useful app. Now I know how to find and avoid the companies that support the lifestyles of the perverted. This will be a very useful tool.
Richard Florida isn’t exactly the unbiased economist that we should be paying attention to. He is making his living off of promoting this so-called Creative Class concept with seminars, tutorials, etc. Of course, he is going to be sounding the alarm so more people and companies will sign up for his seminars.
Colorado Springs had a great industry going with the creative geniuses in the electronics and high tech industries that were actually producing something and providing jobs. These young professionals came with their families because Colorado Springs was such a family friendly, clean town – at that time. Unfortunately, our city and state governements were unwilling to provide the incentives to keep the high tech industry intrested in staying here. Colorado is full of creative people through out the state producing a wide variety of wonderful and not so wonderful art. Alas, the only jobs produced is for the single artist who can’t sell his work.
So, now we have this group, the alleged Human Rights Campaign, with a vested interest in supporting the perverison lifestyles that want the city to provide health insurance opportunities? Let’s see, their first step is to get their ‘partners’ on the rolls, 2nd step is to convince everyone that all of us shoud pay for their ‘partners’ of the moment’s health insurance. Since it is well documented that their licentious lifestyles result in major health issues, this would mean that everyone’s insurance premiums will rise to cover them.
So, let’s be a little more concerned for the rights of the majority in not having to pay for your health issues brought on by your choice of lifestyles.

By: Barb Van Hoy

Barb Van Hoy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:50:43 +0000

Thanks Amy and CSBJ for covering the VERY important economic and business terrain relating to gay-friendliness! Colorado Springs often ignores it at our own great peril. Economist Richard Florida’s work on “The Creative Class” demonstrates convincingly that gay friendly cities do much better in attracting employers of choice, and thriving. Let’s hope Colorado Springs can catch up in this new decade! A great start would be passing the Plus One city employee benefits policy proposed by Citizens Project (www.citizensproject.org).

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