Airlines fasten their seat belts.Question: What do you get when the religious right thinks American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the is too pro-gay and gay activists think United Airlines is too anti-gay? Answer: Something special in the air--dueling campaigns against two of the nation's largest air carriers. The far right was the first, in 1997, to target American for its support of gay-related charities. Now, as of December 14, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay lobbying group, has backed a United boycott, citing the airline's ongoing court challenge to a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been that requires the company to provide domestic-partner benefits to employees. "United ... ought to fasten their seat belts, because they should expect a great deal of turbulence in the upcoming months," says HRC HRC Human Rights Campaign HRC Human Rights Council (UN) HRC Human Rights Commission HRC Hard Rock Cafe HRC Hillary Rodham Clinton (democratic senator/presidential candidate; former first lady) executive director Elizabeth Birch Elizabeth Birch (born 1956, Dayton, Ohio) is an American attorney and former corporate executive who came to Washington in January of 1995 to head the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT organization. . United, meanwhile, maintains that its opposition to the ordinance is based not on moral but legal grounds--that a city cannot regulate a national industry. Somewhere lost in the political turbulence is the fact that American--one of HRC's largest contributors--doesn't provide health care benefits to domestic partners either. As part of the Air Transport Association, American also is a party in the suit challenging the ordinance. |
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