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Olde Tyme Religion
Muslim Flight Attendant Sues Because Job Makes Her Serve Drinks
2015-09-03
[FrontPageMagazine] Next thing you know a Muslim will get a job as a bartender and sue because he refuses to touch alcohol.

So far we've had Muslim suing because their jobs involved scanning groceries customers bought that they didn't approve of. This was the logical next step. And the same left that howls that Christian pharmacists must fill prescriptions for medications they disapprove of has a completely different standard when it comes to their favorite theocracy. (via Religion of Peace)

Charee Stanley, a Muslim flight attendant has filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEO) claiming she was suspended from her job for not serving alcohol -- which is against her religious beliefs.

Then maybe she shouldn't have taken a job requiring her to serve alcohol.

And where exactly does this end? Then Charee Stanley refuses to serve customers who order a pork dish. Or non-Halal meat. Or have a seeing eye dog. Or are immodestly dressed. The list is endless.

Religious accommodation means that you can expect to have your job schedule adjusted to fit your religious needs. It doesn't mean that you can get a job that you refuse to do... and then sue when you're fired for not doing it.

If your religion prohibits you from flying and you get a job as a pilot, that's not a religious accommodation issue. Even assuming the company can find you a gig where you don't have to fly, refusing to perform a basic part of the job that you knew you would have to perform beforehand is just fraud.

But since the real endgame is enforcing Islamic law on Americans... CAIR is suing.

"I don't think that I should have to choose between practicing my religion properly or earning a living," Stanley said. "I shouldn't have to choose between one or the other, because they're both important."

Fortunately there are jobs in America that don't involve serving alcohol. In fact the vast majority of jobs in this country don't. Charee Stanley should find one of those.

But this isn't about earning a living. It's about taking away our rights by forcing companies to abide by same Islamic law. It's theocracy climbing through the backdoor of civil rights.
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#15  Absolutely. The 21st only overturns the 18th, it does not mean I can go into a dry establishment and demand a vodka tonic. I laughed because it was a topic covered twice in amendments. Income Tax was addressed. Universal health care, meh. (Sorry bit off topic, but paying bills and my insurance went from less than house payment to almost double, and to top it off two weeks after last rate increase letter, received letter stating my insurance is cancelled in Oct.)

Back to the topic - this airline's policy is to offer adult beverages to its customers. Muslima signed on after established policy. There is a job description.

And its things like this which actually create more work for the rest of the crew.

Like this - say you own a restaurant and you hired on a new dishwasher for the back. After hiring, dishwasher says he is lactose intolerant and will not wash any dishes with dairy on it. So now every time a cheeseburger plate comes back someone from the prep crew has to randomly stop what they are doing to go wash a plate
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-09-03 19:38  

#14  One problem with all these such issues which SCOTUS ends up deciding is that their decisions are whimsical and not based on the Constitution. SCOTUS has strayed afar from their duties with their exercise of judicial activism. They are basically making up the law as they go along. Nazi Germany comes to mind. Nazi judges made new laws to suit a purpose; mostly to punish enemies of the State--that was whomever they deemed. The path we are headed down is a dangerous path.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-03 18:04  

#13  Rj, just like wearing the hijab/burqua, refusing to handle pork products, etc.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2015-09-03 14:17  

#12  I could be wrong but I suspect the Koran only says don't drink the stuff and the complaints about being near it are recent inventions.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-03 12:58  

#11  swksvoIFF, the 21st amendment only makes the sale of alcohol legal, it doesn't grant a constitutional right to alcohol. Remember, only the Supreme Court can grant new rights, like the right to kill your baby and marry anybody you want. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2015-09-03 12:53  

#10  But since the real endgame is enforcing Islamic law on Americans

All it takes is a sympathetic judge. Union support would be gravy.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-09-03 12:45  

#9  Had to laugh, in a way the Constitution does more to guarantee the legality of alcohol via 21st amendment.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-09-03 11:53  

#8  John, you see, the difference is that gays have a constitutionally guaranteed right to get married and to force other people to support it. You do not have a constitutional right to buy alcohol. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2015-09-03 10:52  

#7  Get a friggin job somewhere else then, put up with it and STFU or pay a fine. I recall the courts trying to force a baker to make a cake for a gay couple or pay a huge fine.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-03 10:40  

#6  What newc said.

False credentials for a job description.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-09-03 10:31  

#5  ExpressJet Airlines
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2015-09-03 08:10  

#4  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Winner winner, chicken dinner!
Posted by: Ebbart Glererong5900   2015-09-03 05:34  

#3  Shoot her and call it a day.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-09-03 00:42  

#2  Actually, the company should sue you.
Posted by: newc   2015-09-03 00:31  

#1  You failed for taking a job where you break your own fake religion.

GO F yourself.

The world no longer changes because of a fake arab prophet from hell in arabia bent on killing everyone.
Posted by: newc   2015-09-03 00:26  

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