RE: Ken Ham files lawsuit against Kentucky
February 6, 2015 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2015 at 2:16 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 6, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Heywood Wrote:(February 6, 2015 at 1:02 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Hard to see why a computer technician would have to give a statement of faith.
Computer technician is just a title. You need to look at the actual job description.
So, in response to this silly advice, I went and looked up the opening. Here are the job responsibilities:
Quote:Summary
New Programmer
Responsibilities
The Solutions Developer is responsible for developing and maintaining web-based, service-based, and client-based software solutions, which includes the following responsibilities:
Gather, record, prioritize, and schedule solution related requests, features and tasks.
Design, prototype, build, document, test, and support software and reporting solutions.
Manage internal customer relationships by communicating the receiving of, the status of, and the satisfactory completion of all tasks proactively with stakeholders.
Collaborate and support a team at every point of the software development lifecycle.
Other duties as assigned
There's nothing there that indicates a religious mission orientation to the position. But here's the next bit in the announcement:
Quote:Education and Experience
A proven firmness in one’s walk with Christ, evident through a personal life that is above reproach, with an “ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands” (1 Thessalonians 4:11); that is, the heart of a servant that works diligently and seeks to defer praise to God.
Bachelors’ degree or equivalent work experience in computer science or information systems disciplines.
Strong personal management, meaning strong time management skills and extremely well organized.
Strong professional, concise and courteous communication skills, able to communicate technical details and concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff with patience, kindness and grace.
Strong experience with the following languages: HTML5 (including CSS and JavaScript), TSQL, and C#.
Must have experience with Adaptive/Responsive Design, MVC, WCF and RESTful services, and N-Tier architecture development.
Support the technical support staff in advanced trouble-shooting needs, interacting directly with end users.
Maintain effective and consistent communication with management and end users regarding service requests and projects, listening and acting upon concerns, needs, and other feedback.
Proactively address user issues and coordinate resolution of service requests and projects with other groups within IT and throughout the ministry.
Thrives in a high-pace environment.
You'll note that the very first listing is something that is irrelevant to programming computers, and is a baldly religious requirement.
So I went and looked at the other openings. Only one of them has a religious function (Latin American Ministry Co-ordinator). One other position has a marketing angle, which may require the ability to sell the myth, and that means knowing it. The others are in distribution, security, and IT, and have no duties related to ministry or religious education; yet they all have religious requirements.
So yeah, the requirement to have the computer programmer, or the rent-a-cop, or the mail clerk sign statements of faith in order to work there doesn't seem to be necessary, and on the face appears to violate state law.