I agree with you, Finny. If I'm an employer, and I reject someone worthy for a crime he did 20 years ago--when of course it can be established that those last 20 are clean--then I'm a jerk. That's the kind of zero tolerance thinking that gets honor students expelled from H.S. because they forgot to take a Midol pill out of an old coat pocket, and wore it that day....
Thanks for the moral support! Minds like yours help advance things in a good direction.