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To: JohnM who wrote (102042)	1/26/2009 7:56:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 542946

<Hoover always hired males> Uh, yeah. Mr. "I hate gays just like Roy Cohn does, but who, in secret, actually is one". The problem with this "pure as snow" rationale is that it only takes one repressed type to have a "sinful secret" that he must hide to offset the "purity" factor. Then they overcompensate. It reminds me of the Pentecostal Gary Ridgway aka Green River killer - always going on about the sin of prostitutes on Sunday, whom he secretly captured, tortured, killed and posed dead during his off hours. Give me an old hippie any day... You find out he smokes pot or is open to occasional gay sex, what are going to? Blackmail him? He's a hippie - he doesn't care. He also won't be hiding either of these facts if you decriminalize his behavior, so if he's freakin' brilliant and has a knack for foreign affairs, or logistics, or analysis, you get exactly what you see: a guy with a great intellect that is good at what he does. The straight-laced types have moved into the national laboratories - they won't accept applicants who have "colorful backgrounds", at least so I hear. So, if you blew up stuff on your uncle's farm or built fireworks from scratch, while keeping all your fingers and hearing, do NOT tell the interviewer. HIDE IT!!! They don't want you. Imagine that we did this in the automobile industry - nope, no ex-motor heads that ever built an illegal motorbike or go kart that they drove around the streets without a license. Oh wait, we probably do reject them - that's why our cars suck... If we just get the a-Moral Minority out of everyone's business then things are a lot less complicated when you simply judge performance using objective criteria and not things that don't matter like what you did last Saturday in the backyard.