[Vision2020] Huckleberries: Rasor’s ideas on tutus mystify Moscow man

[Art Deco]

Here's some news for Rasor.

It is far more likely that a cross-dresser would wear a tutu in public than
a gay man.  The vast majority of cross dressers are not gay, but men who
like the feel of wearing women's clothes.

But, of course, facts hardly ever deter crackpots, especially those in
Idaho's present GOP.

w.


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of today's (June 23, 2013) Spokesman-Review.
>
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>
> Huckleberries: Rasor’s ideas on tutus mystify Moscow man
>
> Henry Johnston, a Sandpoint High grad, wonders where former Bonner County
> commissioner Cornel Rasor got the idea that gay men wear tutus to work.
>
> Rasor, as you may recall, is part of the Idaho GOP push to ask the 2014
> Legislature to void nondiscrimination laws that add gays to human rights
> protections. Six Idaho cities, including Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene, have
> approved the ordinances.
>
> Out and living with his partner, Alex, in Moscow, Johnston had this to say
> about Rasor’s remark that he should have the right to fire a gay man who
> appeared for work in a tutu: “Where does Rasor get the idea that gays wear
> tutus? Media? The Internet? Watching a gay pride parade? I’m out and proud
> and won’t deny who I am to anyone. But you won’t find me in pink briefs
> walking down Main Street Moscow waving a rainbow flag. I think that’s kind
> of counterproductive to our cause of proving we’re ‘normal’ just like
> everyone else.”
>
> Rasor, meanwhile, has become an Internet meme known as “Idaho’s Tutu Man”
> (look it up). Not that there’s anything wrong with wearing tutus.
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>
> Courtesy of the UPI at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jw9dx7g
>
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>
> *Idaho Republican fears 'a gay guy' might 'come to work in a tutu'*
>
> Idaho Republican Party leaders are calling on the state legislature to
> invalidate local and city ordinances that ban discrimination on the basis
> of sexual orientation.
>
> Cornel Rasor, a former Bonner County commissioner and chairman of the
> Idaho GOP’s resolutions committee, believes the anti-discrimination laws
> force employers to put up with workplace shenanigans on the part LGBT
> individuals.
>
> "I’d hire a gay guy if I thought he was a good worker. But if he comes
> into work in a tutu he’s not producing what I want in my office.
>
> "If a guy has a particular predilection and keeps it to himself, that’s
> fine, but if he wants to use my business as a platform for his lifestyle,
> why should I have to subsidize that? And that’s what these
> anti-discrimination laws do."
>
> Idaho has no statewide law banning such discrimination, and Idahoans can
> currently legally be fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes or
> denied service in private businesses based on their sexual orientation or
> gender identity.
>
> Six Idaho cities have passed non-discrimination ordinances in the past
> year and a half, and a seventh, Idaho Falls, is looking into one now.
>
> The party central committee’s resolution isn’t binding on the 81 percent
> Republican legislature, but "sends a message" that GOP leaders want to put
> a halt to local anti-discrimination ordinances.
>
> "All I see is more and more laws making things more and more difficult,
> more and more restrictive, more and more controlled, and I’m a liberty
> person," Rasor said. "I like to be left alone. I like to make my own
> decision."
>
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>
> Cornel "Idaho's Tutu Man" Rasor
>
> [image: Idaho-Republican-fears-a-gay-guy-might-come-to-work-in-a-tutu.jpg]
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>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
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