From Gene Weingarten's Chat

Only in America: Who says the law can't be fun... or at least humorous? On July 17 the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion in a case with a set of facts no humor writer (especially SNL) could ever put together. The plaintiff, Employee A, worked with Employee B for some time and found out that Employee B was gay. Thereafter, Employee A thought that Employee B was staring at him and checking him out. This sense came to its pinnacle when they happened to be standing at adjacent urinals in a workplace urinal. Employee A, being a heterosexual male, was upset by the unwanted attention and sent Employee B an anonymous text message through a little-used workplace computer network that said "Stop staring! The guys on the floor don't like it." Employee B thinks that he is being harassed for being gay and reports the e-mail to HR or whoever is responsible for hearing these sorts of complaints. Investigation ensues, employer figures out that Employee A sent the instant message, asks him about it, he says he didn't do it, employer terminates him for lying, Employee A says "oh, but I tried to tell you the truth after the meeting but I couldn't find anyone" (because they were all in a meeting deciding to fire him probably). Now-former Employee A sues the employer for sexual harassment (by leering, gay Emplopyee B) and retaliation for complaining about said harassment. I know, I know, you're thinking that this is perhaps mildly amusing thus far, but only in a "three's Company" goes to work (and court) kindof way, which is to not not very funny at all. Also not funny because it smacks of anti-gay bias.

Employee B -- the gay one -- had a lazy eye.

Employee A lost.

Gene Weingarten: You know, I didn't think you were going to bring this one in for a good landing, but you navigated perfectly. Thank you.