[mcg1969]

Gotta be honest, man, this is a private company, not the government. They're welcome to screw up their workforce however they want.

[King Black Robe]

You're absolutely right. And we are welcome to buy from other companies in response. It works pretty well that way.

[The_Eaglet]

Who appointed Reinhardt?

It looks like I will need to avoid purchasing HP and Compaq products.

[machman]

Gotta be honest, man, this is a private company, not the government. They're welcome to screw up their workforce however they want.

I agree, but how long do you think a policy at any large company would last if it had a slogan like "traditional values are our strength" and showed a man and a woman with kids in a poster, and actively said that homosexuality is wrong.

[little jeremiah]

They're welcome to screw up their workforce however they want.

There are laws about not discriminating against people in the workplace because of their religion.

[WOSG]

Yes and no. It makes a mockery of the 'diversity' term.
This is CONFORMITY to the ideology of choice.

Would the 9th have upheld a firing of a gay employee advocating an agenda that was Liberal? ie putting up signs that said "Fight the Hetero-power, OrganizE!"

IMHO, HP and the 9th Circus are being hypocrites.

[xzins]

I'm torn on this one, but it is true that it is a private company.

It raises the question of what a company can require of an employee. Can they require anything and there can be no protest because they are a private concern?

There are discrimination laws. It says they cannot discriminate on the basis of age, sex, religion, handicap....they didn't say "sexual orientation" in the past. Apparently, they have eliminated the anti-discrimination provision based on religion.

It sounds as if you are now allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion. Either that or they have listed those in a hierarchy of concerns such that if the choice is between age and sex, then a company can discriminate on the basis of sex if it is in contention with an age issue. For example, if we have a hiring pool of males and females, but the males are all elderly, then we can hire the elderly and tell the females to take a hike. Age is higher on the discrimination hierarchy than is sex.

This would mean that sexual orientation has been moved higher on the discrimination hierarchy than is religion.

[Destro]

Gotta be honest, man, this is a private company, not the government. They're welcome to screw up their workforce however they want.

AMEN!