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The Windsor Star – Sept. 20, 2010
LGBT initiatives applauded
By Kim Covert, Postmedia News
Ed Clark hates getting awards, and he’ll tell you that he tries to stay out of the position of having to accept them. In that sense, the president and CEO of TD Bank Financial Group is an abject failure, because – for the second time this year – a national group has singled him out for praise for the bank’s diversity initiatives. Earlier this year, Clark accepted an award from Catalyst for the bank’s efforts in promoting women in the workplace, and now Egale Canada Human Rights Trust is recognizing TD’s efforts to create a safe and accepting workplace for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Clark says his awareness of the issue started at Canada Trust, which was one of the first banks to give same-sex benefits. He was astounded when he found out that just 50 people, out of the bank’s approximately 55,000 Canadian employees, had signed up. “What does that tell you?” Clark asks. “It tells you that they are terrified of coming out of the closet, even to claim their benefits…. Holy cow, we have thousands of employees that were imprisoned in the organization, that felt when they came in Monday morning and people were chatting about what they did on the weekend, they could not tell people what they did. “We created that atmosphere, we tolerated that atmosphere, that’s just terrible. That’s not acceptable.”
The bank has come a long way since then.
Read the complete article here.
He points to the 50 people saying that there were more like them just terrified to coke out. But I think this just points out how much of a tiny minority homosexuals are in our culture. Mind you, if we have one homosexual we have one too many.
Though it is important to remember that the sin of homosexuality, while a sin that is a punishment for sin, is still a sin like any other. There is nothing so much more “specially bad” about it. We should view all sin as we view the sin of homosexuality.
During research for a paper at university I came across the link to your site. It appeared as one of the first links to be found on the google search engine when I typed in a search for TD bank ads regarding homosexual representation. I read your only two posts that anyone has added. Consider this the third.
While you may fall back on the bible to justify your judgements I feel that your condemnation of any person from a Christian perspective is by far worse than two men or two women holding hands. Your negative response to an initially positive journalistic perspective on this issue is far more harmful than any homosexual could ever be. You perpetuate a hate that surpasses what any religion has intended and then you judge. If you so believe in ‘God’ then you insult his position by deeming yourselves the one’s with the ability to judge. Those are big shoes to fill. I am guessing that you are not quite prepared to do so.
It has been proven through sociological studies that the only people to actually judge at this level the acts of another are the under-educated and those who are full of fear. To you I say…live your lives fully, supress your judgements, and go back to school. If you do these three things all of us will feel a lot better about having you around. With people like you around homosexuality is the least of socities worries.
Ms. Understood, you have made numerous judgments of us in your comment. Clearly then you consider yourself to be sociologically superior to us. Perhaps you would like to present your case as to why you consider yourself sociologically superior, as we as, more objectively, sociologically mature enough to judge, period. The alternative is that we have exposed you as a hypocrite for condemning judgment while simultaneously judging yourself.
Ms. Understood,
Regarding “under-educatedness” and your need to preach about going back to school, and your research paper for university, I suggest you learn to construct and punctuate sentences properly, and learn to spell words like “suppress” correctly. It has two “p”s in it, you know. And you need a comma in your first sentence, really. “Google” needs a capital.
Also, written rhetorical communication ought to build a case with substance, class, objectivity, rather than obvious self-contradiction, ignorance of the subject (ie. biblical moral code and social theory), and shear mud-slinging, tactics. Is this the way you actually write papers?