padib said:
Wait, you're saying she should've been fired but then you go on to say that her punishment should be severe? You need to make up your mind. If I am asked to do something in my job and it goes against my personal beliefs, I won't do it. I think that's commendable and needs to be dealt with sensibly if the conviction is illogical. There may come a day when your employer may ask you to do something you think is wrong (e.g. tax evasion). If you refuse to do what they say, you risk getting fired. But at least you would have stood for what you believe is right. @Wonk. Then there is a serious problem with how this law was made to pass. There are a few states where a good number of people don't accept the law. I wouldn't be surprised if this causes civil unrest in many states. Is this the kind of legal system you propose, where people did not have the right to choose on an important case for many people? This isn't the kind of law you're talking about, it was just slid in by who knows who and now suddenly people are paying for it dearly. ------ To go into more detail, here is why the new law is ridiculous. If a person does not want to sell Hallal meat in their store, they should have the right. Even if that means that Muslims need to go to a different store to find Hallal foods, so should it be. Similarly, if a person does not want to marry same-sex individuals, it should be their right. Going to jail for refusing it is preposterous, imho. |
I do agree the lady going to jail was dumb. She should have been fired and that's it. I think I heard she was voted in or something though so putting her in jail might have been the only recourse they had.
Standing up for your beliefs is great until you start to discriminate against other people then your just a POS.Have you ever expereined heavy discrimination? I went to school once and a kid I thought was my friend got mad once I started hanging out with other people and decided to call me the N word non stop until I hit him square in the nose. This was just one of many instances where I was killed the N word and told I was less than human and I wasn't normal. People like you are always the same througout history. You always think you have this right to keep treating people like crap and you don't care about the damage your doing to a large portion of the human population. To you going to a new clerk is the simple solution because you don't understand what it's really like to be treated like a second class citizen. The sad part about most of this is I learned to not discrinate against anyone because of what I went through yet a large portion of the Afircan American population agrees with you. Some people unfortunately just never learn from their own experiences.
Thankfully people like you are fading into history and just like we did with slave owners will laugh and bow our heads in shame at your ridiculous and out dated ideas. One day there wont be a thing such as race cause will all be so mixed we wont know what we are. Even when that day comes someone like you will come and find a new reason for why we need to treat a large portion of society like crap.
