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22,500 thank JC Penney for hiring Ellen after anti-gay complaint
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/03/22500-thank-jc-penney-for-hiring-ellen-after-anti-gay-complaint/
It is legal to fire employees for being gay in 29 states (Photo: GLAAD)
US retailer JC Penney is being thanked for hiring Ellen Degeneres after a group said she should be sacked because a lesbian spokesperson would lose them business.
But the GLAAD petition, which has 22,500 signatures today, also aims to highlight the lack of protection gay and transgender people face in the workplace in most of the states.
The website OneMillionMoms.com, a project of the American Family Assocation, had asked readers to call the retailer and demand she be replaced with a straight face.
The website said: “Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families.
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JCP has a bedspread in their circular I am interested in. I have put off buying it because of the price. Now I will and thank them while there for standing up against hate. There are just sometimes when paying full price for something is worth it. 
