Ethics

Score One for Mukasey

By Ed Brayton

Attorney General Mike Mukasey may be playing stupid games over whether waterboarding is torture, but I'll give him credit for this:

Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued a revised equal-employment-opportunity policy barring discrimination against any group.

Mukasey informed leaders of DOJ Pride last week that the department would give it the same rights as all other DOJ employee organizations, said the group's president, Chris Hook. In a statement, Mukasey said the department will "foster an environment in which diversity is valued, understood and sought" and maintain "an environment that's free of discrimination."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).