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In article <4kbvtu$obu@news.internetmci.com>, chuckkelley@internetMCI.COM 
says...

>Maybe because they have *not* had a lawsuit against them yet.  At some 
>point in time, they may.  It will interesting to see how this would get 
>determined today.
>
>
>David, it seems we basically (well maybe a bit of a stretch) agree except 
>to the point of were anti-discrimination laws and AA play.  It is my 
>belief that when anti-discrimination laws are enacted, the AA can pick 
>them up to their checklist.  All that I can say is that everytime (at 
>least to my recollection) a piece of anti-discrimination legislation is 
>enacted by our government, we seem to have AA start working on them as 
>part of their juridiction.  So while I agree that discrimination is NEVER 
>good, I can't and don't like the current path.
>

Affirmitive action and anti-discrimination laws are completely separate. 
Here are a couple of examples:

Federal anti-discriminations laws that protect folks from discrimination 
based on their religion have ben around since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. No 
where are there any affirmative action programs that either keep statistics 
on religion or attempt to provide any remedy basedc on a person's religion.

At this time, there is no federal protection at all against  discrimination 
based on sexual orientation.  It is perfectly legal to fire someone because 
they are gay in all but nine states and several cities that provide basic 
civil rights protection against disrimination based on a person's sexual 
orientation. 

In those 9 states with protection, Hawaii, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
New Jersy, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont, there is no 
affirmative action program. 

In ENDA, the proposed federal legislation to protect gay AMeircans from 
discriminatrion, statistical evidence is  excluded from evidence of 
discrimination. 

Discrimiantion against gay Americans, and the lack of any legal foundation 
to redress grievences  is well documented. Gay Americans deserve the smae 
rights as anyone else. It's time to end discrimination.