It’s nice to know the Milwaukee post office has a diversity team, even though the chairman, Dale J. Schuster, has just quit. He had asked Maggi Cage, Executive Director of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, to assemble a gay pride display for the downtown post office, in accord with President Obama’s declaration of June as “Gay Pride Month.” The display went up on the morning of June 1, but by afternoon it was gone.
Marge Oehlke, a spokesperson for the USPS, admitted to removing the display. “It did not fit our qualifications.” If you’ve been inside a post office lately, you might wonder what qualifications are required for decoration. Anyway, the display was out, and it never came back.
As Cage told the Milwaukee Sentinel, “I think it’s plain and simple homophobia. I really do think it’s a case of discrimination.”
Schuster summed up his feelings as he announced his resgination from the diversity team. “In light of the controversy over the pride month display being taken down, I had no other recourse than to resign. I believe it is important that everybody is treated with dignity and respect, and that nobody should feel excluded.”
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Marge Oehlke, a spokesperson for the USPS, admitted to removing the display. “It did not fit our qualifications.” If you’ve been inside a post office lately, you might wonder what qualifications are required for decoration. Anyway, the display was out, and it never came back.
As Cage told the Milwaukee Sentinel, “I think it’s plain and simple homophobia. I really do think it’s a case of discrimination.”
Schuster summed up his feelings as he announced his resgination from the diversity team. “In light of the controversy over the pride month display being taken down, I had no other recourse than to resign. I believe it is important that everybody is treated with dignity and respect, and that nobody should feel excluded.”
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