Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:08:25 -0500, Warp wrote:
> 
>>   For example, if in some kind of food preparation establishment there's
>> a rule, related to food hygiene and safety, that all workers handling
>> the food must not wear long-sleeved shirts (because long sleeves may
>> touch the food products, increasing risk of contamination), and someone
>> has the religious conviction that he must wear long-sleeved shirts (I
>> suppose I don't have to mention such religion by name), which one in
>> this case should be imposed, the freedom of religious expression, or the
>> safety rule?
> 
> That's easy.  If the safety rules conflict with one's religious rules, 
> then there are two options:
> 
> 1.  You go by the food safety rules
> 2.  You find a different job
> 
> This is like someone working to become a pharmacist and then deciding 
> they don't want to dispense legally prescribed medications.  The 
> pharmacist's job isn't to impose their moral beliefs on their customers.  
> Their job is to fill legally prescribed medications.
> 
> If they want to "act on their conscience", then they shouldn't have put 
> themselves into a job where that conflict would exist.
> 
> Jim
Got some wacko that took this to an extreme and now has her company on 
the verge of being embroiled in a lawsuit. She was a nurse and had been 
"accidentally" tugging out IUD (Inter-Uteran Devices) from female 
patients, and explaining it as "accidental", never mind that a) they are 
hard to remove, b) painful to put in, never mind remove, and c) if done 
wrong can threaten the patient with infection or sterility. But, in her 
mind, despite being also ignorant to the point of stupidity about their 
actual function, they "prevented impregnation", therefor where "morally 
unacceptable".

This is the future people. Its only a matter of time with this kind of 
BS being passed for some court case to crop up some place, where the law 
is vague about "what" they can deny, and some bozo refusing to put in a 
pace maker, or taking one out, on the same grounds, or any of a long 
list of other stupid things, all based on their "religious" conviction 
that you shouldn't "prevent pregnancy", "sustain life artificially", 
"over eat", "under eat", smoke, not smoke, or who the hell knows what 
their "conscience" would make them object to on the grounds of some 
personal "faith".

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