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To: ManyMoose who wrote (76806)	7/27/2008 12:36:25 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542891

Every job interview involves discrimination based on appearance. That has been true and legal forever. Nothing says you have to hire somebody for a job, only that you can't refuse to hire them based on certain criteria, if they meet all other standards for the position. And all things being equal, only one person is hired for each job when there are typically many applicants. Inevitably that final cut will depend on some subjective criteria. Discrimination laws are aimed at level playing fields before that final cut.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (76806)	7/27/2008 12:40:19 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542891

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.