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Omniscient Bus Driver Refuses to Drop Woman off at Planned Parenthood

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Gus7/24/2010 10:00:25 pm PDT

Of course they’re trying to write this up as him being fired for his “pro-life views.” He wasn’t fired for his pro-life views. He was fired for refusing to provide a service for which he was hired to do. He is free to keep his pro-life views but not while he is employed as a bus driver for Capital Area Rural Transportation System. Had he not been fired than the woman in question could have sued Capital Area Rural Transportation System for refusing to provide her service because of religious reason as interpreted by the bus driver, Edwin Graning.

A remediation is pretty simple in this matter. He can be offered his job back and return to where he stood regarding accrued time with his promise not to refuse service to anyone regardless of his religious beliefs. This is especially true because CARTS is a public transportation system:

The Capital Area Rural Transportation System, or CARTS, is a Rural Transit District formed through interlocal agreement by nine county governments in the seventy-five hundred square mile region surrounding the Texas capital city.

The ACLJ has no case unless the agree that their client, Edwin Graning, will adhere to common sense and transport any an all passengers to where they desire regardless of his religious beliefs.

Case closed.