(February 4, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Heywood Wrote: Suppose I am hiring people to go out and collect signatures to get a pro gay marriage initiative on the ballot. Would it make sense to ask applicants if they were for or against gay marriage? You bet it would. You would want to hire the people who believe what you are selling over the people who are selling what you believe.....just to get a pay check.
You might want them to, but in the case of a for-profit business hiring for positions where their religious beliefs are NOT a BFOQ, what you would want in this instance is irrelevant, because that sort of discrimination is illegal.
(February 4, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Heywood Wrote: Now the ballot example would likely be a non profit and different laws apply but it drives home the point I am making.
No, it doesn't.
(February 4, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Heywood Wrote: Ham has a valid business reason to want to hire believers over non believers. He wants people to sell his product because they believe in it and not just because they want to collect a pay check.
What Ken Ham wants is wholly irrelevant in this case, because it appears that what Ken Ham wants is unlawful.
I'd like a kilo of the finest Colombian cocaine delivered to my door, but I ain't gonna get it.
