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[quote=Anonymous]You are still misunderstanding the legal system. It is about process.

1. Any employer can ask any questions. Where protected class laws exist for employers of X number of employers, it is still legal to ask. What is not legal is to make a choice based solely on that information. From a process standpoint, you would have a very uphill time trying to prove that a individual employer of one person didn't hire you because of your answer to X. Large employers only get caught when there is a longstanding pattern of discriminatory hiring practices.

2. Even for larger employers the protections are not absolute. A church can chose to only hire a Sunday or Saturday school teacher that is the same religion. An individual employer can choose someone of their own religion as they may want their child instructed in that religion. Its the same for medications. If you are in a position where medications can have an adverse affect on your performance or threaten the life and safety and others, the employer can choose not to hire you on that basis. They can't do that for a receptionist job but for others they can.

3. Protected classes are hard fought political battles. Obesity is not a protected class for example.

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