The Musilm cab drivers did this???I never heard that one!
"The Conscience Rule" Started 1/19/09....Check this out!!! UNBELIEVABLE!
by minimus 36 Replies latest jw friends
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minimus
But remember, a health care provider might not know about another person's religious beliefs. Not 100%.
I checked out the cab driver thing. Very prevalent in Minnesota and in big cities where Muslims believe booze and seeing eye dogs are unclean.
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sammielee24
Part of the article -
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- It's always interesting to me, that in my own country, I often get assignments where I walk into a room, and everyone looks and sounds different from me. Different language. Different culture. And sometimes, different beliefs.
On this story, I crossed such a threshold.
I stepped into the taxi depot that serves the Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport, where drivers sit and wait for their next fare. In this crowded, noisy room, most of the cabbies are Muslims originally from Somalia.
"We're doing a story about the conflict between the cabbies and the airport. The Muslim drivers have been refusing to take passengers carrying alcohol, such as wine or liquor purchased at a duty free shop," I explained.
A group of men gathered around us.
"This is America, we have freedom of religion," says one cabbie. We could see their feelings are intense -- that the issue seems to cut to the core of their identity.
"The Metropolitan Airport Commission is discriminating against us Muslim drivers," says Abdulkaddir Adan, a Somalian-American who's been driving a cab in the Twin Cities for two years.
We asked Adan if he'd give us a ride, and let us interview him while he was driving. He agreed. CNN Photojournalist Derek Davis set up a "lipstick" cam, a small camera, positioned on the dashboard.
From the back seat, I asked why Adan would object if I were carrying alcohol.
"The one who drinks, the one who transports, and the one who makes a business of it, they have the same category," he said.
"So, by my transporting my alcohol in your cab, you are sinning?" I asked.
"Sinning to God, yes," he replied.
Adan is not alone. About three quarters of the 900 cabbies serving the airport are Muslim, and many have been regularly refusing passengers carrying beer, wine or liquor.
In the past five years, 5,400 would-be taxi passengers at the airport were refused service for this very reason, said the Metropolitan Airport Commission, or MAC. Last May, passenger Bob Dildine says he waited for 20 minutes, and five cab drivers would not give him and his daughter a ride. He was carrying wine he bought on vacation.
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minimus
Great article. Thanks!!!
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sammielee24
A person can hold a Bible or other holy book and simply state they won't do something because it's against their religion or conscience and there's nada you can do about it!
..except that if you take someone to the hospital or clinic who is really sick and they get refused treatment by someone who decides that they don't want to help because of their religious beliefs and if their inaciton has a direct impact on the victims life/finances, then the facility can expect to get sued mega bucks. I'd be right there behind them that's for sure - especially if that facility is the recipient of public or taxpayer funds.
I feel sorry for employers when the rules aren't made clear. There has to be some sort of common sense ground in matters of life and death. I wonder if the employer was legally able to force any religious person who is vocally fundamental in their beliefs and what they will or will not do, to sign documents, stating that a)they carry medical insurance of xxx million dollars and b) they are for legal purposes considered a contractor and not and employee and thus any and all lawsuits or legal actions against them as a result of their refusal to engage in the requirements of employment, will belong to them and not the facility. sammieswife.
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minimus
Sue them for adhering to their principles AND the Law???
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carla
Could one turn it around and say it goes against their conscience to not give whole blood to save a life and by not giving blood they would feel guilty of murder? (in the case of a jw who was unconscious but had the card in their wallet, no HLC or other jw's around to object)
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I quit!
How about if I'm a cab drive and I think that the teaching of Muslims are false so I refuse to pick one up and drive him to his mosque or priest to his church or an atheist to an antheist convention. The whole thing is stupid. People who do this should be fired so they can find a job that doesn't offend their beliefs. And that goes for dispensing birth control, blood transfusing whatever. If your religious conscience doesn't allow you to perform your job then find a job you can do without going against your religion. The rest of the world should have to bow to your convictions. Unless of course you don't mind bowing to everybody elses.
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"The one who drinks, the one who transports, and the one who makes a business of it, they have the same category," he said.
"So, by my transporting my alcohol in your cab, you are sinning?" I asked.
"Sinning to God, yes," he replied.
Sounds like he's in the wrong business.
Would an anti-abortion fundamentalist work as a receptionist at an abortion clinic? Of course not! So why would someone who is opposed to transporting alcohol working in the field of transportation?
If I am paying someone to provide a product or service, they should do their job. If their job is objectionable to their religious beliefs, then they are the one's who need to change jobs.