CALLER CAROL: Hello? Hi. I have a friend who manages a large apartment complex in Redmond, and they have families there and they have people that, you know, are from different countries, more traditional, etc, and when this thing went through last week she was asked by several people that live there that have families, that said 'Are you going to now allow this?', because up until now that simply has not been acceptable. I mean, it never occurred to anybody that that would happen, etc.
So now with this her statement to them was 'Absolutely not, we'll continue the policy and we're not going to let the gay people, whether they know it or not, we're not going to do it.' These people have families and I would like for a lot of us to stop calling it sexual orientation. The behavior is perverted, it's always been perverted, it's perverted globally, it's been perverted globally for, since time began.
And so when you've got an apartment complex and you've got two gay guys you know out there, with each other hugging, and you've got families there and you know people from different parts of the country or other parts of the world or country where places are more traditional, it is, they feel like they are on First Hill here. And so to dress this thing up, to call it sexual orientation is offensive to me and I'm sure offensive to a lot of people and it is what it is.
CARLSON: Carol, thanks very much.
So after several weeks of discounting the need for job and housing protections for gays and lesbians in the state, John is confronted with solid proof that discrimination exists in a large suburban apartment complex. Unsurprisingly, that cognitive dissonance is left unchallenged and unexplored.