According to a story  in yesterday’s Bay Area Reporter, the Office of Special Counsel has officially abandoned the discriminatory position that federal employees cannot seek redress for discrimination based on sexual orientation under federal civil service law.  As you may recall, in 2004, Bush-appointed Special Counsel Scott Bloch abandoned the 25-year-old, bipartisan  interpretation that a provision of the law that bars job decisions based on conduct unrelated to job performance  protects against sexual orientation discrimination in the federal workforce.  Despite widespread criticism by ...

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