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Breaking: Michigan House Passes Religious 'License to Discriminate' Bill - the New Civil Rights Movement

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KerFuFFler12/08/2014 9:07:38 am PST

re: #2 nines09

A matter of faith should never inject into professional or business dealings. I can’t even see any good intent in this law. It’s raw meat to the drooling jackals who see their world as the only world. And they are neither Christian nor Muslim nor Jew or Hindu. “I would love to help you, but I noticed you eating shrimp. Sorry.” “Is that linen with cotton?!!?” “Yes. You like Pork Lo Mein, but you are also a devil.” “You do not follow my God and my God says to lend no hand to help you.”

I don’t see any good in this law either. I suspect that if you skimmed through my comment too quickly you could have come away with the wrong impression. Let me emphasize the relevant portion:

I have a little more respect for the idea of being unwilling to dispense medications that are against their religious principles. In such a case a religious person may feel complicit——--so then they should not go into pharmacy!

I did want to recognize that there are situations that could make a believer complicit in something that is against their religion.* But the onus is on the religious person to not seek those jobs then. A religious Hindu cannot expect to be hired at the meat counter and then refuse to package and sell meat.

*This is different from, for example, withholding life-saving treatment from a gay person because there is no religion where saving lives is wrong.