Equal Opportunity

Whenever you are looking for a job and filling out online applications, the following or something worded like the following always appears:

As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. We invite you to complete the optional self-identification fields below used for compliance with government regulations and record-keeping guidelines.

In order to prove we don't care about your sex, religion or race please provide us with your race, religion and race. I never fill out this information because I find it offensive. But, the government apparently requires this asinine line of questioning for prospective employees.