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Originally Posted by Craig
Yeah, that's complete BS. Any business adapting that policy would be sued out of existence, not to mention that it would be a violation of labor laws to even ask those questions.
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Well, I guess that proves you're not all-knowing and all-seeing after all.
Go back and re-read the post. They didn't require anyone to reveal what their orientation was - SELF-ADMITTED homosexuals would be given preference for promotion, and it was "suggested" for anyone else wanting to get a leg up on their own chances for promotion, coming out and volunteering the info that you were homosexual would be one way to do it.
More than likely this was some idiot VP's knee-jerk overreaction to the possibility that someone who was openly homosexual would one day try to sue them for discrimination in hiring and/or promotion, ie, claiming they were denied promotion solely on sexual orientation - and the dumba$$ kneejerked all the way to the opposite extreme into an equally untenable position.
And as I said before - my friend took early retirement immediately after this policy was proposed. And it may very well be as you hinted - amidst the howls of protest and threatened legal action after it was proposed, someone realized what a cluster they had on their hands, and said policy was DOA, never became anything more than "proposed", and was quickly swept under the rug.
But the whole point of relating this "story" is to show, just like politics in DC, there are overzealous idiots on both sides of this issue as well, whose caterwauling only serves to keep anything worthwhile from being accomplished.