While Ryan is clearly on record opposing gay marriage, he has supported the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which allows employees to sue over discrimination based on sexual preference.

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On the legal front, job interviews are frequent generators of lawsuits because interviewers often ask the wrong questions, (e.g. those having to do with age, gender, sexual preference, etc.).

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At the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia yesterday, I saw women of all colors, religions (of those whose clothing makes it obvious) gender identification and sexual preference.

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To all of the children out there who feel lost, who are struggling with your weight, with the color of your skin, your sexual preference, your disability, even the acne on your face, listen to me right now.

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Business people should care, and care deeply, about the manner in which the media characterizes all of us whenever it does so using race, gender, religion, disability, national origin, sexual orientation or gender preference.

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