Affirmative Action Ruling
FACT: The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits job discrimination based on sex.
FACT: Paul Johnson was declared the best qualified applicant for the position of Santa Clara County Transportation Department dispatcher, but was denied the job solely because he is a man.
No amount of Supreme Court or Times editorial doublespeak can dispute or reconcile these facts. If the courts can use an anti-discrimination law to justify discrimination, then is the original intent of any of our laws secure?
Paul Johnson worked hard his entire life only to be denied a well-deserved promotion--all because of some twisted theory (never passed by any legislature) of social tinkering. This is justice?
CHRIS NORBY
Fullerton
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