So let's say you worked in the presidential administration of George W. Bush, and let's say you didn't really like gay people because icky. How would you handle the gay people who worked for you in the presidential administration of George W. Bush?
If you were Scott Bloch, head of Bush' Office of Special Counsel, you would plot to open a special government office in Detroit where you would send all the gay people working for the Office of Special Counsel.
Business Insider: Scott Bloch — whose tenure was filled with controversy — went to great lengths to make life difficult for gay workers in the OSP, that agency's inspector general found. Bloch even told government contractor Richard Trefry that he planned to create a Detroit office just for the gays, according to the report, which was posted by the Blog of the Legal Times.
Yes, that is completely intolerant and offensive and a stupid waste of taxpayer's money. I'm sorry you don't like how some of your employees have sexy time, but that's no reason to open an entire government office so Scott Bloch doesn't have to be all the time thinking about hot, hot man-on-man action.
On the other hand, a massive influx of gay professionals wouldn't have been the worst thing to happen to Detroit. All those gay federal workers could've helped establish the gayborhood that Detroit has, for too long, lacked.
You don't have to be a Richard Florida fanboy to accept his argument that a sizable gay population is good for cities.
The Atlantic Cities: Openness to gays and lesbians similarly reflects an ecosystem that is open to new people and new ideas. It’s amazing how consistently people have misconstrued what my colleagues and I have had to say about the connection between gays and economic growth. They miss the point. A strong and vibrant gay community is a solid leading indicator of a place that is open to many different kinds of people. Ronald Inglehart, who has studied the relationship between culture and economic growth for some four decades, has noted that the lack of societal acceptance of gays is the most significant remaining bastion of intolerance and discrimination around the world. Accordingly, communities that have long been more accepting and open to gay people have an underlying ecosystem which is also more likely to be accepting of new ideas and different types of people, including the eggheads and eccentrics who invent new things and start new enterprises.
So please, intolerant federal bureaucrats, please send all your gay employees to Detroit. We would be lucky to have them.
