I was once refused employment because I didn't profess my faith during the job interview. Yes, it really happens.

Same here. I was being interviewed for a job teaching biology in a Catholic secondary school in 1980. Up to that point I was still a Catholic of sorts but was definitely losing it by then. The interview had gone very well right up to to the point when the priest who was chairman of the Governors asked me, out of the blue, whether I would be prepared to study for the Catholic Teaching Certificate. My "no" answer was the most catastrophic conversation-stopper in the history of the universe. Yep, it happens all right! I'm humble enough to think that I might not have been the best candidate anyway, but at least I hadn't looked too bad on paper next to the others.