UF Updates Anti-Discrimination Clause

For many years, the University of Florida has been urged to add sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination clause. The faculty senate, student government, and graduate student's union have all passed measure urging UF to include sexual orientation in the clause. Finally, in June, 2003, shortly after learning of an impending lawsuit for discrimination based on sexual orientation UF, they voted to extend the clause to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Read this story from the Gainesville Sun for more details.

Blatant Homophobes

UF trustee Al Warrington is a pig!

In the above article, the Gainesville Sun reported:

The University of Florida board of trustees added the phrase "sexual orientation" to its anti-discrimination rules on Friday but, in the face of strenuous objections from one board member, did not address the issue of providing employee benefits to same-sex couples.

Trustee Al Warrington IV, for whom UF's College of Business is named, said he supported expanding the anti-discrimination rules of the university but said, "That's where I think we should draw the line."

In an interview after the board meeting, he said that if the university were to begin offering employment benefits to partners of same-sex couples, "you begin blessing that type of orientation."

"I wouldn't be in favor of doing anything that would serve to expand that orientation," added Warrington, a 1958 accounting alum who has since donated at least $5 million to the College of Business Administration.

"Everyone has their own moral, ethical and religious views," he said, "but I think the Bible is very clear on that issue."

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