The only way to define diversity

The liberal way.  For what it’s worth, I’m a little shocked that this is making the news.  Since I entered the secular workplace in 2006, I’ve not been in a company that didn’t mandate diversity training, and that included acceptance of LGBT rights.  By the time I worked for a major banking institution, I had to watch videos and take a test in order to keep my job.  And by then the training included affirming the company’s support for gay marriage. It was part of the rules.  I didn’t do it, I lost my job.

That’s why I don’t equate a free country with what private institutions do.  The government?  Yes that’s a bit sticky.  And perhaps that is the deal breaker here.  It is the government saying if you work for our government (that’s the one in the US), then these are the values you will have.  A very liberal idea.  After all, what is liberalism but insisting there is only one set of acceptable values and you better conform or else.  Nonetheless, does that cut it in the government?  I don’t know.  I’m not a lawyer.

But it’s apparently fine in the private sector.  I’ve been told a dozen times that a person doesn’t have such rights where non-government companies are concerned.  Which is why if the NFL or other sporting organisations start mandating certain behaviors during the National Anthem, I wouldn’t see that as an affront to the freedom celebrated in that same anthem.