According to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, discriminating based on sexual orientation trumps discrimination based on Christina values under the Equal Employment opportunity (EEO) law. The story tells how an employee was fired expressing her religious belief that homosexuality is a sin. When she was fired for "discriminating" against sexual orientation, she sued saying the company was "discriminating" against her religious beliefs.
Now, I think the EEO laws go against the libertarian values of freedom. An employer should be able to discriminate on any trait he chooses, after all, it his money and his job. This does not mean that I think that discrimination is right, I just don't think government has a right to tell me what I standard can use in my hiring process. The reason these laws are bad is because of what just happened. The law protects both sexual orientation and religious belief. However, in this case, they are mutually exclusive. The government, then, has to give more value to one trait over the other, and thus discriminate. They fall in the trap of doing exactly what they are trying to prevent private companies from doing.
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