Fat People Can't Eat

Yesterday I was reading a magazine and was shocked to learn that in some town in Mississippi they have made a new law. Here it goes. This is going to floor you. The new law is: if you are in the obesity weight range you are not allowed to eat at fast food restaraunts. That's right. No shirt, no shoes, too fat, too bad, no service. Isn't that crazy. And even more, the govenor of Mississippi has just made a proclamation that his goal is for his state to lose 1,000,000 lbs. Oh, and it goes even further. Did you know that your weight can now be effecting your job? Yup, that's right. Bosses have started handing out some pretty hefty bonuses to all employees who are a certain weight or lower, and if you lose a certain amount of weight to get to that weight the bonus gets even bigger. It's crazy. Oh, and last year Reader's Digest did an article about a bunch of women who were not chosen for different jobs. The women suspected that they had not been hired because of their weight, because they were by far the most qualified people for the job, so RD went undercover. They went around to the different organizations that these women had applied for positions at and ask, flat out, why didn't you hire these women. And do you know what they said? They said (to bluntly paraphrase), "They're too fat." C'mon. These poor women are just trying to make a living and you won't hire them because they're fat. I can see the logic in the moves of the govenor of Mississippi, and I can even kind of see the logic through giviing bonuses to people that lose weight, if the people lose weight healthily, but to refuse to hire someone, and to refuse to let someone eat at your restaraunt because they're obese. I almost think that this crosses the life, because with some people it's not their fault that they're bigger. Some people have thyroid problems that keep them from "the perfect weight", and there is numerous other help problems that people have that keep them from reaching their goal size. I don't know maybe I'm wrong, but it almost seems that what started out as good intentions (trying to get America healthy) has turned into some sort of sick game to guilt people into our expectations of what they should be and how they should be. In fact I'd say some of this is infringing on our rights: The freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If someone believes that eating at that certain restaraunt will make them even that much happier, shouldn't that be allowed. Yes I know that I took that a little out of context, but the point is still the same. Do bigger people not have the right to eat, and live, and work, and be just like the rest of us? Maybe we should cut the obese population a little slack. What does anyone else think? Am I wrong? How does everyone else feel about this new be skinny, tone, and beautiful campaign?