Would you support a candidate that believes employers have the right to fire someone for being gay?

Question

and/or for living in sin?

Answer 1

all the republican be out of a job

Answer 2

I would not support that candidate at all if they thought employers had the right to fire someone for being gay. How would that candidate and that employer feel if I fired them for being straight?

Answer 3

Absolutely not!
In fact, I have two gay friends in New Jersey who just entered into a Civil Union which is now legal in that state. One of them worked for the Catholic Diocese there and he got fired the next day simply for entering into the union. He had been working there for years and there was no question at all about the quality of his work.
That really sucks in my opinion. It also seems that, since such arrangements are legal, that firing a person for that reason alone would be an employment discrimination violation.
Anybody from New Jersey have an opinion?

Answer 4

They had better have a better reason than that for firing anyone. We all know that any employer can find a reason for firing anyone & they can't be faulted for doing so. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time & if they are looking for a reason to fire someone they will find that one thing that they need to fire anyone. It's done to people other than gays, minorities, elderly, handicapped ect. I have seen it done, it isn't pretty. You see it happening but are powerless to stop it. Once they have made up their mind to let someone go, they start watching that person; even have others watching without that person ever knowing they are being observed. It's a cruel world at times.

Answer 5

there are some that help gay rights, although if there are limits as to how a strategies they're going to pass. an stunning form of the significant contenders do now no longer help same intercourse marriage, they only help same intercourse civil unions. it fairly is by using fairly some factors. The Dems are afraid the Reps will use this as a wedge difficulty like in 04, so the Dems are staying distant from it.

Answer 6

Absolutely not.

Terminating an employee for being a homosexual is discrimination.

As for your second enquiry, I don't think you should be allowed to fire someone for living in sin. "Sin" is determined by religion. Religion should not have that kind of power. Let the politicians determine what is wrong and what is right. After all, that is what we pay them to do.

Answer 7

Wouldn't that depend on the situation? When my daughter worked for the girl scouts, I wasn't allowed on the camp grounds without an escort. Why should that be any different for a lesbian? Or for a gay man at a boy scout camp? I never could understand that. I also believe that religious groups should be permitted to enforce their own standards--but only as it applies to their own facilities and institutions, and only if they're serving their own religious community.

Answer 8

'Employer' is too broad a term. Should a fundamentalist, gay-bashing church be forced to employ a gay music director? No. Should the IRS be allowed to fire a secretary because he's gay, or lives 'in sin'? No way.

There is a huge difference between public and private sector, and the law needs to recognize it.

FYI, even though I support their right to fire people for personal matters like sexual orientation, I would not patronize a business known for such practices.

Answer 9

NO WAY!!! What someone does in his/her private life is his/her business, and someone shouldn't have to worry about possibly losing his/her job, just because his/her private life doesn't meet with the employer's approval.

Answer 10

Employers should have the right to fire anyone for any reason.

It is the employer's resources that are being used and employees can quit when ever they want.

If Employers can't fire, then employees should NOT be able to quit.