Sparky of SoCal wrote:What in your law you are asking for is discriminate? How do you write a law doing that? If someone says they like clowns for example. If I address that coment saying I don't like clowns, I think you are nuts if you like clowns, I will not shop at your bakery because you like clowns. Is that under your proposed law legal?
Okay.... so, say I publicly post that I think clowns are disgusting, but my employer is a very pro-clown kind of person and when he learns about my post he fires me because I said something mean about clowns. With the law I envision, it would be illegal for my employer to fire me since he would be discriminating against me based on my statement. Just like it's illegal to discriminate against someone based on political affiliation, sex, race, religion, etc., it should also be illegal to discriminate based on opinion since opinion is just a subset of political beliefs which in turn is a subset of political affiliation. Current law should be interpreted this way, but since it is not we need a law which explicitly makes this clear. This is actually something employers should welcome since it would make it pointless to boycott a company because they have a clown-hating employee on staff. Obviously it would be illegal for an employer to check out internet postings when deciding whether or not to hire someone and any indication that such info was used in a hiring decision would be both a criminal and a civil issue. Ultimately this type of law would give all people freedom to express their opinions.
Feel free to give me another scenario in order to "test" this proposed law with!