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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (76806)7/27/2008 12:40:19 PM
From: Travis_Bickle  Read Replies (3) of 542852
 
There are specific classes protected under the civil rights act ... "dressed like a freak" is not a protected class ... "functionally illiterate" is not a protected class ... "smells like boiled cabbage" is not a protected class.

You can't discriminate based on sex, race, ethnicity or religion, everything else is fair game.

So if a black person shows up for the job interview with his pants halfway down his ass, you can decline to hire him because his pants are halfway down his ass ... you just have to show the same treatment to white people with their pants halfway down their asses.

Gays are not a protected class ... so even though the candidate is exceptional in every way and far surpasses all the other candidates by any measure, you can decline to hire him (or fire him) simply because he is gay.

Some states/municipalities have extended protection to gays but Florida and my little part of Florida have not.
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