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Re:Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in C... by catlover76 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @09:44PM (#37807133)
I don't think Mormonism/LDS has anything like the Hindu caste system (I neither know nor care about Scientology)

I'd be interested to know whether any other major religion has anything quite like the caste system.

Re:Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in C... by olliej on Sunday October 08, 2023 @04:03AM (#37808681)
Mormonism and scientology both have castes, albeit in varying forms of "ranking". A person of a lower rank is always subservient to the higher ranked version, which is castes.

There may be a degree of mobility between ranks, but mormonism at least makes it explicit that a black person for instance starts at a subservient rank, and can never reach the top rank, as that is reserved for white people.

Your position in a job, or the availability of that job, or housing, or in fact anything, should never be restricted simply due to some religious doctrine.

Re:Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in C... by huytersd on Sunday October 08, 2023 @08:20PM (#37815626)
It is though. It’s exactly that, a “ranking” passed from father to child that’s relatively influid.