More support for gay rights from the business community

It's interesting to see support for gay rights coming from the business community, such as the testimony during last week's gay marriage hearing here in the bay state.

Similarly, an Adovcate article today covers an editorial in a Kentucky business journal which condemns Kentucky's recent shift to allow employers to fire people for being gay:

"Governor Fletcher may or may not be pandering to the most extreme social and religious conservatives among his voter-base. That's a political matter," Martin wrote. "Our concern is for the well being of our business community. And in any case, either way, this policy sends Kentucky stumbling backward, even as the nation and the world have moved on."

He added: "With the stroke of a pen, Governor Fletcher has undermined the efforts of our urban centers, which have local antidiscrimination statutes shielding gays and lesbians, to present themselves to prospective new businesses and residents as progressive and fair-minded."

I'm sure this editor isn't fully representative of Kentucky's business world, and I wouldn't count business as a devoted, core defender of gay rights. Still, I don't think we would have seen this kind of support twenty or thirty years ago, and it's an interesting shift.