I can make sense of this. A personal business is like one's house - you have the right to choose who goes in, right?
It should be that the employer clearly says who will be declined at the job description so that nobody wastes any time.
In the same way, a gay person could decline any straight people a job in his business. Hooray for free will.
That's the problem though. I don't know how the environment in most private businesses are like, but in government the trend seems to be an overall goal of a diverse workforce instead of an efficient one.
If it was my business and my money, I'm hiring the best person for the job, because if I don't and we don't and I don't make money, I'm screwed.
You may feel it is the same, your home and your business, but the law does not see it as the same in the US. There are already laws on the books, upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional valid, that prohibit discrimination due to race, gender, and other reasons, regarding both who your business serves if it provides a service and who it hires. Such laws have been around more than 50 years.
Even though this doesn't apply to homosexuals in most parts of the country, there is still very much a legal difference between your right to restrict who walks through the doors of your home and who walks through the doors of your business. This is why you can not tell someone they can not eat in your resturant just because they are black. The Supreme Court determined that the Commerce Clause of the constitution grants the government the authority to make this distinction. I agree with such laws.
You may not agree with those laws, and it is your right to try and have them changed of you wish. But from a legal standpoint, it is not the same thing.
should employers be allowed to discriminate?
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I can make sense of this. A personal business is like one's house - you have the right to choose who goes in, right?
It should be that the employer clearly says who will be declined at the job description so that nobody wastes any time.
In the same way, a gay person could decline any straight people a job in his business. Hooray for free will.
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That's the problem though. I don't know how the environment in most private businesses are like, but in government the trend seems to be an overall goal of a diverse workforce instead of an efficient one.
If it was my business and my money, I'm hiring the best person for the job, because if I don't and we don't and I don't make money, I'm screwed.
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Screwed right in the ass by the gay guy?
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Actually the gay guy in my building is a hell of a nice guy. Probably a good worker also, he's not on my floor though.
It's more of the "ethnic" workers that tend to just be dead weight.
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I love gay people! Their happiness is contagious..
I usually only encounter the ethnic types down on my level. That seems to be where they do the best work. Manuel labor and whatnot.
You may feel it is the same, your home and your business, but the law does not see it as the same in the US. There are already laws on the books, upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional valid, that prohibit discrimination due to race, gender, and other reasons, regarding both who your business serves if it provides a service and who it hires. Such laws have been around more than 50 years.
Even though this doesn't apply to homosexuals in most parts of the country, there is still very much a legal difference between your right to restrict who walks through the doors of your home and who walks through the doors of your business. This is why you can not tell someone they can not eat in your resturant just because they are black. The Supreme Court determined that the Commerce Clause of the constitution grants the government the authority to make this distinction. I agree with such laws.
You may not agree with those laws, and it is your right to try and have them changed of you wish. But from a legal standpoint, it is not the same thing.