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From: ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.motss
Subject: Re: Gay Rights
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:21:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 04:21:06 1984
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	This whole discussion of discrimination is getting
sillier by the minute. . . 

>>Susan Cohen wore a Star-of-David pin to her interview which
>>provoked a discussion of, among other things, her family life,
>>synagogues in the area where she might like to attend if she
>>gets the job and so forth.

	I thought employers weren't supposed to ask this sort
of stuff.  If a prospective employer asked this stuff of me,
I'd tell him/her/it to stick it up their wazoo!

>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First of all, being
>>a Bible-believer, I am intensely interested in opportunities
>>to take advantage of the provision for goys under Abraham's
>>covenant -- "I will bless them that bless you...".  If Susan
>>wants the job, I will tend to favor her for it because she is
>>a practicing jew.  

	If I were Susan, I would be both insulted and scared.
Insult comes from being hired for a job for reasons other than
her qualifications. (If another woman wanted the job, would you
hire Susan because she had larger breasts?!?) 
Fear comes from the possibility that she might get canned if a 
Christian with the appropriate credentials (who isn't gay) comes 
along and wants the job.  Would you can her because she's a Jew?  
When would you start to use the Bible to discriminate *against* 
her because she's Jewish?

>>I'd have to be out of my mind to hire Howard over Susan
>>no matter how much experience Howard has or how immediately
>>he could be making money for me.

	Not to mention a poor businessman. . .

>>So, some folks would have had me thrown in jail for the last
>>episode of discrimination.  How about this one?

	You betcha!  Off to the hoosegow with you! 

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