Arbitration & Mediation

Gay Marriage in California: Is it Good for Business?

By Victoria Pynchon

No, I'm not jumping into any gay marriage debate; nor opining about the "rectitude" of the "position" of either side.  I do have gay friends for whom I'm happy, of course.  Because I want to see them happy and because exclusion from the mainstream -- whether one believes it to be voluntary or not -- is difficult at best and incredibly painful at worst.  But that's compassion at work, not opinion or a judgment on the social "good" or "bad" of this long-term struggle by many marginalized groups to join mainstream America in all their diversity.

What I'd like to do is to re-post an interview I conducted with one of my best friends who happens to be a gay rocket scientist and who is comfortably settled with his beloved companion -- also one of my husband's and my closest friends.  Tony talks here about why diversity and tolerance in the workplace is not only good for the people in it, but good for the business that supports and empowers them.

Here's New York Times reporter Adam Liptak's coverage of the California Supreme Court opinion here.

That's all.  Anyone debating the gay marriage thing can go back to it now.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on May 16, 2008 (boomark / email).