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Rep. Steve King: DADT Should Apply to the Workplace! (JonTrouten)

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Iowa's own Rep. Steve King was asked a couple days ago about whether or not the government should have a roll in protecting GLBT employees from unjust discrimination. Turns out that King is in favor a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" approach gays in the workplace. In others words, they won't have a problem if people don't know:

KEYES: Would that encompass, for instance, the government being able to tell businesses who they can hire and fire?

KING: Yeah, they shouldn’t be able to do that [to] a private business.

KEYES: Even if those were to be regulations say on a matter of sexual orientation or gender or other stuff like that?

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Complete article at Jon Trouten : http://bit.ly/I1BALO