Gay Coal Miner Sam Hall Is West Virginia’s New Workplace Discrimination Hero
Sam Hall, the gay West Virginia coal miner who’s suing his former bosses at Spartan Mining Co. for failing to protect him from harassment on the job, just catapulted himself to the forefront of the LGBT equality fight yesterday by rallying in support of bills before state lawmakers that would protect our kind in the workplace. “What I have noticed is that employees tend to follow the lead of their employers when it comes to discriminating and harassing others in the workplace. Why, as West Virginians, do you allow this type of behavior and harassment to occur and then go unpunished?”
Yes, and the more and more people that their “Beer-Drinking” buddies know and like who come out the better. You don’t think that the beer crowd start to change when a few NASCAR drivers, Football players, etc… start coming out? Or lets say, Vin Deisel, etc… a few action stars. Every little bit counts.
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Have you ever been to West Virginia? Probably not. So what gives you the right to talk smack about it? Discrimination may occur sometimes, but doesn’t that happen everywhere? West Virginia is a beautiful state with beautiful people. I’m sure there is more white trash living in inner city Los Angeles than the entire state of West Virginia. Don’t talk about a place unless you’ve been there and seen it for yourself.
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This is West Virginia, for god’s sake. Did you expect something civilized?