God Save the Queen...With LGBT Police Guards

categories: International Gay Rights, LGBT Rights and Business

Published September 22, 2009 @ 04:51AM PT

Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen of England is looking for a few good folks to join her squad of elite officers protecting Windsor Castle and Balmoral. And if she has her way, she'd prefer it if those folks came from under-represented populations on her staff, including LGBT folks.

The Metropolitian Police are leading a recruitment drive to add special officers to a unit known as the SO14 Royalty Protection Branch. Sounds a little like an American bank or something from the TV show Alias, but it's actually an elite squad of cops who protect the Royal Family as well as visitors to London's royal palaces. The recruitment drive came about amidst concerns that the unit was lacking diversity, especially regarding LGBT officers.

Conservatives blasted the recruitment effort, saying it was nothing more than "window dressing for the sake of political correctness." But diversifying your workforce is actually a repsonsible thing to do. And besides, the protection unit still says that it will hire folks solely upon merit. They would just like to see more applications from under-represented groups, like LGBT folks. There's no harm in saying that, despite what anti-affirmative action zealots think.

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The Queen of England is doing the correct thing by supporting the recruitment of LGBT police officers to the SO14 Royalty Protection Branch. The intolerant conservatives are wrong because adding diversity, specifically LGBT people, to join a group of elite police officers who protect the Queen is important. The intolerant conservatives, although blasting their intolerant message, don't have a credible reason against the good deed the Queen of England is doing.

Posted by Edwin Bonilla on 09/22/2009 @ 01:23PM PT
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Goddess save the queen.

This is awsome news indeed.

Posted by Thomas McHugh on 09/23/2009 @ 05:39AM PT
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Michael is the Communications Director for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and previously was Communications Director for Pax Christi USA, a progressive Catholic human rights organization.