Muslim cab drivers tell airport they won't bend in alcohol dispute - International Herald Tribune
Muslim cab drivers tell airport they won't bend in alcohol dispute - International Herald Tribune
Private business people making decisions based upon their personal religious beliefs to turn down who they provide service to. One side of the ideological aisle outraged by that fact that personal religious beliefs are being imposed on the general public. Am I writing about taxi cab drivers turning down fares... or pharmacists refusing to fill Plan B (emergency contraception) and contraception prescriptions.
A wide range of conservatives have worked themselves up into a fury about Somali Taxi cab drivers in the Twin Cities turning down fares from the airport because of their religious belief in following Sharia law that forbids them to be in the even near alcohol. So Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Michelle Malkin, and paleo-bloggers filled to the rafters have taken aim at these people of faith (just not the right faith in their eyes) with outrage exclaiming "how dare you force sharia law onto us!?!"
Why wouldn't these same paleo-thugs come out and defend the general public in the case of radical christianity being imposed on the general public? The answer: because they are basically dishonest, and lack any integrity. The same way that private businesses cannot deny their products or services based on gender, color, creed or national origin, the taxi cab drivers do not have the the right to withhold services due to their personal belief. If the cab drivers cannot perform the duties that could reasonably be expected of them (until prohibition comes back into fashion includes carrying people after they have stopped in at the airport duty-free shop with a bottle of wine) they should not seek out employment that conflict with their beliefs.
An observant jew should not expect to get a job at Burger King and refuse to touch a cheeseburger or a egg & bacon croisanwich and to continue to hold that job. A Catholic medical student should not do a rotation at a Planned Parenthood with expectation that they can deny their professional obligations to provide less than Pro-Choice medical service. A muslim truck driver cannot be chosey as to what cargo he is hauling (as long its legal). A budhist cannot apply for to be a waiter at Peter Luger's Steakhouse expecting to only be serving tofu.
New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission has spent the last 10-15 years cracking down on taxi drivers that pass on African-American fares, and the same type of crack down should occur in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
Why wouldn't these same paleo-thugs come out and defend the general public in the case of radical christianity being imposed on the general public? The answer: because they are basically dishonest, and lack any integrity. The same way that private businesses cannot deny their products or services based on gender, color, creed or national origin, the taxi cab drivers do not have the the right to withhold services due to their personal belief. If the cab drivers cannot perform the duties that could reasonably be expected of them (until prohibition comes back into fashion includes carrying people after they have stopped in at the airport duty-free shop with a bottle of wine) they should not seek out employment that conflict with their beliefs.
An observant jew should not expect to get a job at Burger King and refuse to touch a cheeseburger or a egg & bacon croisanwich and to continue to hold that job. A Catholic medical student should not do a rotation at a Planned Parenthood with expectation that they can deny their professional obligations to provide less than Pro-Choice medical service. A muslim truck driver cannot be chosey as to what cargo he is hauling (as long its legal). A budhist cannot apply for to be a waiter at Peter Luger's Steakhouse expecting to only be serving tofu.
New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission has spent the last 10-15 years cracking down on taxi drivers that pass on African-American fares, and the same type of crack down should occur in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
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