Allstate and Kodak Firings for Anti-Homosexuality
Clayton Cramer writes
I mentioned recently a case that seems to involve Allstate punishing an employee for writing an article that didn’t give the proper respect to homosexuality. Different River linked to it, and raised the ante, with an example of a Kodak employee fired for similar reasons, although because the Kodak employee dissented using company email, there is at least a plausible case that the employee was legally in the wrong.
Companies have every right to fire their employees for political reasons if the employment contract does not specify otherwise, but it is interesting how pro-homosexual these two companies are. Are companies allowed to fire employees for their religious views too? They should be. I see no principled reason for restricting the liberty of people to hire as they will, even though such liberty would hurt people of my politics and religion.