On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 13:16 -0600, Brian Wood wrote: > Mike Miller: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Brian Wood wrote: > >> > >> > >> I'm not inclined to reply to top-posts. > > > > > > How about keeping your religion to yourself? Besides, I'm pretty > sure > > that making hiring decisions on the basis of religion is illegal. > > > > http://www.justice.gov/crt/religiousdiscrimination/religionpamp.php > > > > > I think you're right about it being illegal. My guess is it has been > illegal for 40 or 50 years. I'm of the opinion the country has been > going off track for more than just the last 20 years. I'm not going > to rehearse the story from Acts 5 now, but here's what Gamaliel told > some associates intent on persecuting some followers of Yeshua: > "And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them > alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to > nothing; > but if it is of G-d, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found > to fight against G-d.” > > > > It's hard to see how the quality of C++ encryption code can have > anything > > to do with the religion on the programmer. > > > > I'm sure you've heard of the Puritan work ethic. I need someone > with that. The Bible also says to do good to all men especially > those of the household of faith. The man (could be a woman) of > faith is the one I'm after to help with this contract/income. > Having no idea what "puritan work ethic" was I googled it and found this entertaining article: http://www.anxietyculture.com/puritan.htm as the first exact match in the title. I believe I get the gist of its intent in your context but "of faith" is not a measure you can use legally a basis for hiring which you apparently acknowledge yet still announce as a primary requirement in your need to fill the position. ....must...resist... urge to further opening the can of "religion worms" on the list.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101122/a1ab847c/attachment.htm