Ryan Pacifico is suing Calyon in the Americas, charging that his one-time boss at the French financial firm presided over a testosterone-fueled trading desk, where he was mocked for avoiding meat and wearing snug-fitting shorts during triathlons.His boss, Robert Catalanello, sounds like a real winner of a guy in the complaint."A trading floor is certainly a manly man's world," Pacifico said. "I just never expected someone to think it's gay to be a vegetarian or to constantly poke fun at me."
Catalanello's alleged abuse is the meat of the nine-page complaint, which accuses the boss of saying, "Who the f--- cares?" when another trader questioned what Pacifico would eat during an outing to a steakhouse.H/t, Joe.My.God"It's his fault for being a vegetarian homo," Catalanello is accused of saying. The suit also charges that the boss crudely poked fun at Pacifico last March during a conversation about steakhouses.
"You don't even eat steak, dude," Catalanello is accused of saying. "At what point in time did you realize you were gay?"
The RNC Chair race continues to push the party organization toward it's conservative base, and the latest salvo comes from James Bopp Jr., a committeeman and conservative litigator from Indiana, who isn't committed to a candidate but doesn''t seem to be a fan of Michael Steele.The anti-gay nonsense is so ludicrous that a simple email exchange by Patrick Sammon with a GOP operative is an issue for these clowns. This party is in freefall.The hand-annotated, 13-page .pdf, emailed to RNC members, goes after Michael Steele for his association with two toxic parties: Former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, who has called for a return to the center, and the Log Cabin Republicans the gay GOP group.
Posted over at my blog yesterday, but thought folks here might be interested in the latest salvo in Arizona's marriage equality scuffle.
A gay commitment ceremony planner in Phoenix has filed a proposal to create "civil partnerships" in Arizona that would entail all the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage but leave the magic word "marriage" to the straights. It's the usual list of visitation and inheritance rights, plus marriage-like requirements for financial support of spouse and children, as well as provisions for legal dissolutions mimicking divorce without calling it that. He even included a bit barring the partnership ceremonies from being performed during any religious service in order to calm fears among the more hysterical Christian set that their churches would be co-opted for leather bear weddings every Saturday in June (although that probably means the proposal automatically flunks constitutional muster, but I do appreciate the effort).
Cathi Herrod isn't biting.
Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, which backed both earlier ballot measures, said her group will oppose this plan to create what she called "marriage counterfeits."
"Marriage — and the benefits of marriage — should be reserved for one man and one woman," Herrod said.
So another day, another plea for special rights from the people who backed a constitutional amendment that was marketed as only being about protecting sacred sacred marriage from the homos, and goodness me of course isn't about taking anyone's rights away and certainly isn't going to keep anyone from hiring very expensive lawyers to cobble together some documents that don't cover every contingency and may or may not stand up in the face of opposition from conservative ICU nurses or distant Baptist relatives you met once who are more entitled to your property after you die than is your partner of thirty years. Of course it's not about that.
Except, of course, when it is.
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