E: Removing inflammatory language, and rephrasing.

While this is true, that means that you can't discriminate against someone for how they believe. If they act in an unacceptable manner - for whatever value of unacceptable is used for am environment- then putting a stop to that is not discrimination.

I'm not the author, but I can imagine one problem I would personally encounter, were this my employer, would be that there is no discrimination policy.

So now you've lied to the speaker. Or you have to write that discrimination policy yourself, pushing it through HR and C-level.

And as the author says, that's what they would prefer, if they had all the time and energy in the world - and the sentence "We don't do that here" serves to say "Please don't make me have to write down a rule that says we don't do that here.".

It's like seeing a sign "Please don't pee in the washbasins in the 3rd floor mens' room". There's a reason someone had to put down that rule in writing.

> "gay" people

What do the quotes signify here?

What the article referenced.

The article used quotes around gay to signify that it was discussing the adjective "gay" as a noun. You _used_ it as an adjective while surrounding it with quotes. Do you mean "people who are attracted to people of the same gender", or something else?

The article provided two potential definitions of the word. I mean the term to be inclusive of the whole situation the article described as a concept which encapsulates both meaning of the word--hence why I quoted it and referenced discrimination policies which usually address both definitions conceived of in the article in the workplace.

That makes sense, thank you for clarifying.

Maybe he's distinguishing it from light-hearted.

Like the article author, you sound like a self-elected cop of sorts. Have you considered channeling your energy elsewhere?

I was asking for clarification and got it. What's the problem with that?

Seemed to me that you were attempting to sniff out some heretical speech.