The Resource Center of Dallas, a nonprofit celebrating its 25th anniversary today, presented the odd diversity survey that was handed to employees of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department earlier this month.

“It is a useful tool for the sessions that we participate in on diversity training and cultural sensitivity," says Cece Cox, the associate executive director of Resource Center. "And not only do we think so, but various audiences we’ve used it with do as well," she said.

Earlier today, we wrote about how employees were asked to fill out a questionnaire on homosexuality during a workshop. So far, so good. But the questionnaire itself seemed sloppy and a bit strange, posing a series of bizarre statements that responders could disagree or agree with.

Our personal favorite was a typo-ridden one that read "bisexual are completely gay."

That one still stumps me. One would think that the answer would be, um, "obviously not."

Anyhow, Cox, who claims that we did not have permission to reprint the survey, says that her organization has used the document before in presentations to other law enforcement agencies including the Dallas Police Department. She added no one ever had a problem with it.

We think everyone was too busy laughing.

While law enforcement agencies aren't known for being beacons of tolerance, particularly of gays, I wanted to know how the Resource Center's survey could promote a more progressive mindset among middle-aged guards and officers. What's the point of asking, for example, if bisexuals are more gay than straight? And why ask employees to fill out the blanks to the statement, "If I could tell that my unborn child were going to be Gay, I would..."

“The questionnaire matters because it allows people to launch off into a discussion about matters that are difficult to discuss," Cox says. "And in this case, about issues about the gay, lesbian and transgendered community."

Cox adds that her organization's survey was just a small part of its 90-minute presentation, which came in the middle of the sheriff's department's 8-hour workshop on diversity. She says that her group didn't charge the county a fee. So there's that.

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