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  4. From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
  5. Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was  Re: Sexuality)
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan01.185259.9558@microsoft.com>
  7. Date: 01 Jan 93 18:52:59 GMT
  8. Organization: Microsoft Corporation
  9. References: <1992Dec30.191743.7958@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec31.043531.4304@microsoft.com> <1992Dec31.205337.11369@anasazi.com>
  10. Distribution: usa
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Dec31.205337.11369@anasazi.com> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
  14. >In article <1992Dec31.043531.4304@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
  15. >>
  16. >>     Let's look at it from a different angle:  Should it be illegal
  17. >>for people to eat vegetables, simply because you are a meat eater?
  18. >>Should employers be able to fire vegetarians for not eating meat?
  19. >>Should school children be taught that vegetarians are abnormal?
  20. >
  21. >And must we have a law to prevent each and every one of these incidents of
  22. >descrimination?  As I pointed out before, Smokers have been fired for
  23. >smoking on their own time, at home, in their car, etc.  If employers can
  24. >get away with that (some have, some haven't), can Hormel firing vegetarians
  25. >be far behind?
  26. >
  27. >I repeat, can't we just have one law that forbids discriminating against
  28. >anything other than appropriate job qualifications?
  29.  
  30.     I'd be all for it, if you can find some good way to codify
  31. "appropriate job qualifications."  I haven't seen any such law
  32. proposed, anywhere, though.  Maybe we should be lobbying our
  33. Congressmen instead of wasting time posting to the net.
  34.  
  35.                     -Phil
  36. -- 
  37. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  38. Phil Lafornara                         1 Microsoft Way         
  39. philipla@microsoft.com                Redmond, WA 98052-6399 
  40. Note:  Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
  41.