Do you beat your wife?

[Aimless]

No?

When did you stop?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN16C0WT

Muslim students visiting an Oklahoma lawmaker's office in the state capitol were required to fill out a form that asked if they beat their wives and other questions that offended them, an Islamic advocacy group said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eat-your-wife/

Bennett, a Republican who was elected to the Oklahoma state legislature in 2010, has a history of expressing anti-Muslim views. He once called Muslims a “cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out” at a 2014 event and refused to apologize for those remarks later, according to the Tulsa World.

At first I thought this was really fucked up but then I realized the question specifically said "wife" rather than "wives" so it turns out it was cool after all.

Anyway, to forestall the mandatory comments about whiny easily-offended Muslims and how important it is to cause offense, I must ask: is this sort of thing legal in the US? For a govt. official or institution to discriminate based on religion by requiring adherents of a specific religion to fill out a specific religion-focused questionnaire for questionable reasons? 'Cause it sounds kinda like religious discrimination. I think you'd have to have deliberately borked your brain pretty severely to be able to think that this sort of thing is cool, but I'm just wondering about the legality of the stunt.

[LittleFuzzy]

No?

When did you stop?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN16C0WT



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...eat-your-wife/



At first I thought this was really fucked up but then I realized the question specifically said "wife" rather than "wives" so it turns out it was cool after all.

Anyway, to forestall the mandatory comments about whiny easily-offended Muslims and how important it is to cause offense, I must ask: is this sort of thing legal in the US? For a govt. official or institution to discriminate based on religion by requiring adherents of a specific religion to fill out a specific religion-focused questionnaire for questionable reasons? 'Cause it sounds kinda like religious discrimination. I think you'd have to have deliberately borked your brain pretty severely to be able to think that this sort of thing is cool, but I'm just wondering about the legality of the stunt.

Because there is no actual state action involved, I believe it doesn't violate any federal discrimination rules. It definitely doesn't run afoul of the 1st amendment. I can't speak for the specific discrimination statutes in Oklahoma, but from what I do know of the state I would be very surprised if this violated those either. It was just a legislator jackass being obnoxious to score points with an electoral subgroup. In another state you might still be able to get the legislature to censure their member for being such a jackass but again not in Oklahoma.