{"id":446,"date":"2007-08-27T03:57:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T03:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2007-08-27T03:57:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T03:57:19","slug":"very_interestin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/very_interestin\/","title":{"rendered":"Very interesting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*emphasis mine*<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a press release from Equality Forum, 463 of the 2007 Fortune 500 companies voluntarily include sexual orientation in their employment nondiscrimination policies.<br \/>\n<strong>There is currently no federal workplace protection based on sexual orientation<\/strong>, and only 20 states include sexual orientation nondiscrimination in their workplace statutes.<br \/>\nThere are 37 Fortune 500 companies that are non compliant, <strong>and 15 of them are based in Texas<\/strong>. However, of the 55 companies total that are headquartered in Texas, 41 do provide sexual orientation workplace equality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernvoice.com\/thelatest\/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=13959\" target=\"_blank\">Story found at&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nMy Thoughts&#8230;<br \/>\nI wonder where the other 17 are?<br \/>\nand people wonder why I don&#8217;t want to live in TX?<br \/>\nIn FL, the laws are just as bad, but peoples attitudes are better! In TX people seem proud to discriminate against gays, where in FL people don&#8217;t realize the laws are what they are&#8230;not that ignorance is an excuse, but at least you can educate ignorance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*emphasis mine* According to a press release from Equality Forum, 463 of the 2007 Fortune 500 companies voluntarily include sexual orientation in their employment nondiscrimination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}