Clients can't be bigots? Go to a halal market some time On May 19, 2014 2:22 PM, "Judah McAuley" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about should a CF shop > targeting Republicans as their audience have to employ a gay programmer? > > If that is what you are saying, then, yes. There is no rational basis for > being gay or black or female having anything to do with that person's > ability to be a good programmer. > > I could see an argument being made that you'd be less effective as head of > business development for a CF shop targeting Republicans if you were, say, > a prominent donor to Democrats. You could also argue, I suppose, that > they'd be less effective if they were gay, but then you'd be arguing that > your clientele are bigots, which doesn't seem wise. > > Judah > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:50 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > If you're targeting a Christian or republican demographic? > > On May 19, 2014 12:50 PM, "Judah McAuley" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is that the job? Then, yeah, you are probably right there. I'm not sure > > > what job you are hypothesizing, though. It's true that if you hire a > gay > > > pastor for a southern baptist church, you'd lose business and that > would > > be > > > bad. I'd say that the person in question could not reasonably do that > job > > > in a way where their homosexuality was neutral to their work > performance > > > and ought to go. > > > > > > Given the same set of requirements, could a gay CF developer do the > same > > > level of work as a straight CF programmer? Does their sexual > orientation > > > have any reasonable negative impact on the job they need to do? That's > > the > > > whole notion of "rational basis for discrimination" that you'll see if > > > judicial discussions. > > > > > > Judah > > > > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:43 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, so if you live a lifestyle of "sin", you will effect the > impression > > > of > > > > my business within my religious community, which will also impact ny > > > bottom > > > > line. > > > > On May 19, 2014 12:37 PM, "Judah McAuley" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
