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> 3) Potentially being discovered and held against you by employers. Interesting, I just realized that political viewpoints is not necessarily a protected clas
by eshvk 14y ago
> 3) Potentially being discovered and held against you by employers.
Interesting, I just realized that political viewpoints is not necessarily a protected class [1]. Presumably owning a gun is sort of a political view. Can an employer technically discriminate against such people? It feels like a class action law suit waiting to happen so I am guessing there is a law out there that gets violated.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
- kevinh 14y agoYou can fire someone for owning a gun in most states. Gun owners aren't a protected class except for Missouri where a law was recently passed to make them one, despite no known cases of someone firing an employee for gun ownership. Interestingly, LGBT individuals aren't a protected class in Missouri, despite many cases of firing employees for being an LGBT individual.
- eshvk 14y agoThe libertarian in me feels that gun ownership or the lack thereof shouldn't be any business of my employer. I am however more offended that what a person does in their bedroom is not protected by Federal Law.
- jlgreco 14y agoI can imagine making political viewpoint a protected class could have immediate negative ramifications on politicians, making it unlikely that political viewpoint will ever become a protected class. Unless maybe corporations set up to run campaigns could somehow be excluded from this perhaps?