Warbler said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Warbler said:

darth_ender said:o.

Many facilities, particularly in the South, will not hire a Mormon.

pretty sure that is illegal.

If it is illegal, it shouldn't be. Meaning no offense of course, but if that were the case than people would not be able to refuse people for hire based on a person's beliefs (which the employers may be completely opposed to and thus not wish to affiliate themselves with that person), and I think it is a right employers should have.

I couldn't disagree more. If religion has nothing to do with the job being applied to, why should it matter what the applicant's religious beliefs are?

I am pretty certain discriminating in hiring based on religion is banned by civil rights legislation.

Tell me, if Walmart announced tomorrow that they were no longer going to hire Catholics, would you think Walmart had every right to do so?

Good point. I think it should be legal for small businesses (perhaps under 50 employees or something like that), but once it gets larger than that, then employers should be required to be looser with their requirements. With a small, personal business though, if someone is hiring one other person and they're going to be in close contact everyday, the employer might want to hire someone around whom they would be comfortable, which might involve not hiring people who wear shirts advertising that they're pro-choice (just an example, and the employer could impose a dress code to avoid that kind of thing, but that's not my point).