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My son-in-law has worked for HP for a very long time and in the past 5 years, the employees have been forced to attend many "diversity" training seminars, starting with if your eye happens to catch a female (and you are male, that is)for more than 6 seconds, you can be charged with sexual harassment, then they have moved on to "other sexual" issues, i.e. gay, lesbian, transgendered, bi-sexuals are just the same as hetros and no offensive looks, references, etc. will be tolerated. When it came time to "role play" my son-in-law stated that he refused to do so and that, while he wouldn't treat anyone, regardless of their sexual preference, badly, he didn't believe that he should be forced to acknowledge that their lifestyle was acceptable to him, as it was not. He has been told in no uncertain terms that if he chooses to continue his employment with HP he should keep his opinions to himself, he countered with "why should I when no one else does?" Needless to say, he was asked by his supervisor not to return to the seminar after lunch.

My son-in-law has worked for HP for a very long time and in the past 5 years, the employees have been forced to attend many "diversity" training seminars, starting with if your eye happens to catch a female (and you are male, that is)for more than 6 seconds,

LOL is it the book of Galatians that tells us that the law incites rebellion? If I were in that seminar, I would be tempted to ask the leader if I could have a clock timer that went up to 5.99 seconds. When I saw a female, I would start the clock, then when the buzzer went off I would look away.

LOL In other words, our natural condition, when given a law, is to find away around it. Without the law, we don't think about it.

This story sure seems extreme.

If they bring it up, then it should be fair game. I would attend the seminar and would provide lots of rebuttals.

Most companies are not this bad. I wonder if the lawyers had a hand in this one. Could be that HP were sued (or threatened with a lawsuit) at one point and this is their self-imposed or required punishment.