In my nightly browsing, I came across this post, the contents of which I find quite disheartening:

"Ok, I hold a student position at the medical library and my boss is this super conservative republican lady. It was Friday afternoon and me and a coworker were just sitting around waiting for the clock to tick 6 P.M. so we could go home, then I get a phone call and after I got off the phone the conversation with the co-worker went something like this:

Does that sound like harassment? The comments were all made in a non-threatening tone and just as a friendly chat between co-workers. Now I know that if I was to come out my boss would not be comfortable with me being gay and I do think she would either make it difficult for me to work here or would give me less hours for work next semester. Probably even at the time when she wasn't at the office."

It's sad that his concern is quite reasonable. And to see such an atmosphere of intolerance manifest itself in an environment that should be known for its respect, if not celebration, of diverse identities, backgrounds and viewpoints is tragic. Of course, the author and his co-worker could be off-base in their perception of the boss, but a workplace culture that even suggests intolerance, especially on the managerial level, makes me cringe.