No Jews, Catholics, or any others need

[packman]

apply unless you believe in my type of god.
Pennsylvania lawman wants to bring religious preferences into hiring practices.

http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-20/news/46377811_1_denlinger-gender-identity-individual-rights

[gopiscrap]

1. What a fuckwad!!!

[PCIntern]

2. In 1961 in Southampton, PA, right outside Philly

was an apartment complex. My mother of blessed memory was raising me and wasn't certain that she would be able to make the monthly mortgage payment of $93.00 for our house, so she called the manager of these apartments. After discussing rents and whatever else, my mother asked, for some reason uncelar to me presently but obvious to her apparently, if Jews were allowed to live there. "Oh no!" the lady replied, "No Jews or (Black People) allowed. You'll be quite comfortable here."

Little did she know to whom she was speaking...we stayed in the house, somehow.

[Egnever]

5. Are you a black jew?

Need more info!

[PCIntern]

19. Do you now...?

What would it matter if one were Jewish, Black, or both? Actually I'm a Maori-Lithuanian-New Zealander-Mongolian Jew. One of a kind...

[Egnever]

20. Trying to figure out why your grandmother saying that

was interesting as if there was an inside joke there. I wasn't getting it.

[PCIntern]

21. My grandmother?

Are you having a problem?

[Egnever]

22. Apparently you are

Guess you are just looking for a fight. Cary on with your nonsense.

[Egnever]

3. History just cant help

Repeating itself can it.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. I feel sorry for Pennsylvania!

How the heck did a nut like this even get elected?

[Laxman]

8. Philadelphia In The East....

Pittsburgh in the west and Alabama in between. A gross simplification but not necessarily far off.

[life long demo]

17. I also heard it explained as

Philly in the east, Pittsburgh in the west and Kentucky in the middle. I guess there's no difference whether Alabama or Kentucky. LOL. I'm in the east, thank God.

[herding cats]

6. Isn't this in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?

[SamKnause]

7. The Assholes

on parade are really outdoing one another.

[diabeticman]

9. ... As a Pennsylvanian I am sorry

[msongs]

10. well there goes the US supreme court nt

[OutNow]

11. Back in the 1960s

my family used to vacation at Lake Wallenpaupack every summer. One year one of my aunts came with us on vacation. The manager of the place took one look at my aunt and asked my dad if she was Jewish. My dad replied that we had been renting a cabin there for many years and there had never been a problem, so what was the problem now.

Well, the manager replied, "You know all those New York Jews stay in the Catskills, not the Poconos. Everybody knows that." My dad said we were from the Philadelphia area, not New York. The manager seemed like that answer and that was the last time we heard about it.

Are we going back to that era? God, I hope not.

[hrmjustin]

12. What a jerk!

[Orsino]

13. The Great Rebranding's latest faceplant. n/t

[etherealtruth]

14. The repukes really would like the "good old days" to come back

the days when you you could be openly biased (prejudiced) against anyone ...and suffer no repercussions.

[theHandpuppet]

15. This is what is behind opposition to ENDA

There were a number of religious leaders bleating in opposition to ENDA because they wanted to be free to discriminate against LGBTs. Well, surprise! When you lobby in favor of discrimination on the basis of "religious liberty" that same argument can come back to bite your butt.

[sakabatou]

16. Yes, let's turn back the clock 50+ years

[theHandpuppet]

18. Why turn the clock back?

This kind of discrimination has been ongoing for LGBT persons who have been denied services and fired from their jobs on the grounds that such discrimination is an expression of "religious liberty". It was religious leaders at the forefront of fighting ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. As the saying goes, "be careful what you wish for". When you can rationalize discrimination against any group of people on religious grounds, it may just come back to bite you.

What would you say to someone who said this in response to gays getting fired from religious institutions:

I would imagine if you work at a Catholic institution, then you might want to go by their rules. I would not work at a Catholic institution if I was gay, having pre-marital sex, and so forth. I don't think it's in the best interest of a strict Catholic to go work at a gay bar. It's common sense.