Originally Posted by retmil46

Your choice. The person that related that "story" to me is a close personal friend, and over the years I've never had reason to doubt his word.

My friend didn't leave solely due to this announced policy - in his own words, this was the last straw after a string of questionable business and personnel decisions by the same firm - that this last announced change confirmed in his mind he was working for "a bunch of half-baked morons that sooner or later would drive the company into bankruptcy".

I will give you one clue - his bankruptcy prediction proved correct.

They weren't asking them to reveal their sexual orientation per se - only stating that those who were self-proclaimed homosexuals would be given preference, and strongly "suggesting" that if anyone else wanted to better their chances of being promoted, letting the company know of their homosexual orientation on their own recognizance would be one way to do so.

As I stated, my friend left the firm immediately thereafter - it could have been that afterwards there were enough howls of protest, and as you said enough potential for several lawyer's paydays and threatened legal action, that wiser heads prevailed and the proposed promotion policy arrived stillborn.