Race, Sex, Age, Disability... Guns: Indiana introduces a new "protected category"

Title VII or the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and a multitude of copy-cat state statutes, all say much the same thing: It shall be a violation of this law to refuse to hire or promote an applicant or employee on the basis of race, sex, etc. All the so-called "protected categories" are characteristics with which we were born or fell into, e.g., age, disability.

Not so a new Indiana law. Known as the "take your gun to work" law, the statute, as recently amended, reads:

34-28-8-6 Required disclosure

Sec. 6. A public or private employer doing business in Indiana may not:

(1) require an applicant for employment or an employee to disclose information about whether the applicant or employee owns, possesses, uses, or transports a firearm or ammunition, unless the disclosure concerns the possession, use, or transportation of a firearm or ammunition that is used in fulfilling the duties of the employment of the individual; or

(2) condition employment, or any rights, benefits, privileges, or opportunities offered by the employment, upon an agreement that the applicant for employment or the employee forego the:

(A) rights of the applicant or employee under this chapter; or
(B) otherwise lawful:
(i) ownership;
(ii) possession;
(iii) storage;
(iv) transportation; or
(v) use;
of a firearm or ammunition.

So... in Indiana gun ownership is a new "protected category." Only in America!
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