Employees could have faced firing for “acting on same-sex attraction” or “rejection of one’s biological sex.”
, the Christian organization that operates homeless shelters in Denver and holds an $8.7 million city contract, says it will remove anti-LGBTQ language from its employee handbook that seemingly gave workers a choice between embracing their sexual orientations and gender identities and keeping their jobs.
“We must recognize the dehumanizing impact of discrimination and its connection to violence,” Kniech said in the statement. On Tuesday, Denver Rescue Mission spokesman Stephen Hinkel said the handbook was updated with the anti-LGBTQ language this fall in response to questions from employees. “That specific wording was a new addition and obviously we are going too far in that language and we are going to reword that and, at some point, send out a new handbook with wording that isn’t as inflammatory,” Hinkel said.“Our goal is to help homeless people as a mission and if we need to change things to broaden the community of people we can serve and who can work at the rescue mission, then we will do it,” Hinkel said.
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