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Tell Baylor's Tom Landry Fitness Center: Recognize LGBT Families
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    721 out of 1,000
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    1. Press Office (+ 2 others)
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      • Press Office (Baylor Health Care Systems)
      • Senior Vice President of Consumer Affairs (Jennifer Coleman)
      • Director, Tom Landry Fitness Center (Phil Tyne)
  2. Created By
    Michael Jones
    Boston, MA
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Everyone likes a workout partner, especially if that partner is the love of your life. After all, what better way is there to end the day than running on a treadmill next to your wife, husband, or partner, catching up on life while collectively getting in better shape?

It's just a shame that one Dallas-based gym has to rain on everyone's parade. That's because the Tom Landry Fitness Center, run by the Baylor Health Care System, won't allow same-sex couples to enroll in the gym under what's known as a family membership. Doesn't matter if the couple involved has been together for five years or 45 years; if you're an LGBT family, you won't be recognized by the Tom Landry Gym.

Send Baylor Health Care and the Tom Landry Fitness Center a message that this policy of telling same-sex couples that they're not families has got to go. It's discriminatory, and it doesn't represent the diversity of the Dallas area. It's time for this policy to go.

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Allow same-sex couples to access family membership plans

Dear Ms. Coleman and Mr. Tyne,

I recently became aware that Baylor's Tom Landry Fitness Center does not allow same-sex couples to purchase family membership plans, whether those couples have been together five years or 45 years. This is deeply disturbing to me, and I'd like to urge Baylor's Tom Landry Fitness Center to update its policies and respect the families of LGBT residents in Dallas.

According to this article in the Dallas Voice (http://www.dallasvoice.com/baylor-policy-discriminating-gays-1062269.html), yet another couple was told by Baylor staff that they were ineligible for a family membership because their same-sex relationship (of ten years) doesn't constitute a family. In practice, this policy amounts to nothing more than discrimination, which not only requires same-sex couples to pay more, but treats their relationships with little dignity or respect.

I urge you to change this policy. It's discriminatory, out of date, and not representative of the diversity in the Dallas community.

Thanks for your time.

[Your name]

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