>Actually that's exactly what the law said - until people started complaining and businesses threatened to leave the state because of it....which resulted in the governor backpeddling real quick and the law got changed.
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>Can you point me to some documentation (other than the Huffington Post or MSNBC) for this. That is certainly not how I remember it.
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>It's still legal to get fired from your job for being gay - and I bet we agree that is discrimination. You'll find that most republicans (or maybe I should say the elected and running-for-office republicans) are ok with this and their core favors this type of discrimination. Sort of brings me back to my original point - which is that they seem out-of-touch with the way the real world is today.
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>And it is still legal to get fired from your job for being a woman, for being fat, for being bald, or any one of a thousand other reasons. As long as the boss can show cause, anyone can get fired.

Actually, it's not legal to be fired (or not hired) because you're a woman. The others you mention are not protected classes (though you could make some argument that firing or failing to hire because someone is bald might be age discrimination).

The issue in such cases is proving that the reason was sex, since most people are smart enough to couch it in some other reason. But if a number of people get together to prove a pattern of failing to hire women, or failing to let women advance into management, the employer will be punished.

Tamar