Muslim taxi-drivers won’t be forced to carry alcohol-toting passengers,
as this article explains, but Christian pharmacists will be forced to dispense a drug the operates to destroy human life.
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Thanks for the link, Verity.
Everything I read about these people makes me conclude that they can’t assimilate and will remain a problem for years to come.
This is such b.s. Since I am opposed making people do things they don’t want to do (which means pharmacists can refuse to dispense certain products)–I think the best way to handle it is to send them to the rear of the taxi line.
Remind me to get a BLT or a Brat Sandwich to go next time I am in the Twin Cities Airport. Amazing how those things will end up getting left behind in the cab.
By “these people,” do you mean these specific Muslims or do you mean Muslims in general? If it’s the latter, that is way too generalized of a statement.
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You know, I could just see SFClerk chiding people about what wonderful folks the Visigoths were.
Fiddle, son, fiddle.
(Yes I know Nero predated the Goths but his spirit lived on then and is still with us now.)
Wow – sharia arrives via taxis. I guess women with uncovered heads, unaccompanied women, priests, men without beards etc. all better get ready to walk.
I know this is Minnesota, but imagine getting a cab ride to a Green Bay game–the pork essense just fils the air.
Wait a minute–I thought pharmacists *were* allowed to refuse to dispense medicines that conflicted with their religious beliefs, except in Illinois and California. And isn’t that what most people here want? Why deny the same right to members of other religions? Shouldn’t we be applauding these cab drivers for standing up for their religious beliefs?
Grover,
Given the Islamization of Europe and the fun its given our cousins, I don’t think similar things here should give folks warm fuzzies.
sfclerk- I thought I’ve been clear on this here. I don’t think that religious Muslims can, um, self-actualize in a country like the United States.
Let them eat cake, I mean pork, I mean cake.
I have no problem with Muslims not being around pork and booze. That is ok. But don’t take a job that requires you to engage the general public. It is like trying to be a waiter and then complaining you have to serve alcohol.
But if a Muslim wants to operate a cab on his or her own (we all know it will be a his) and if he wants to restrict riders to those without alcohol, that is his right. But don’t complain when you are bumped to the end of the taxi line.
“But don’t take a job that requires you to engage the general public. It is like trying to be a waiter and then complaining you have to serve alcohol.”
Or being a world leader if you can’t go to receptions with wine?
“But don’t take a job that requires you to engage the general public.”
Amen, brother!
“It is like trying to be a waiter and then complaining you have to serve alcohol.”
Or, like being a pharmacist and complaining that you have to fill prescriptions!
But here’s the solution: We provide pharmacists with cars so they can drive their six-pack-laden customers home from the WalMart; and we license cab drivers to dispense contraceptives! There, everybody’s happy.
1) I have no problem with accomodating the Muslims. I was pointing out the hypocracy.
2) Not all accommodations, however, are equal, because there is a truth and while accommodating some beliefs out of respect for others beliefs is in general a good thing to do, at some point, the validity of the belief could justify denying an accommodation.
3) There is also a difference between a government enforced limited supply (cabdrivers) and one where the market can adjust.
“I have no problem with accomodating the Muslims.”
I do, actually–the same problem I have with a pharmacist making judgement calls on my personal choices. I do think it’s ironic to read comments like, “sharia arrives via taxis” and “don’t take a job that requires you to engage the general public.”
“I was pointing out the hypocracy.”
Whose, exactly?
“…at some point, the validity of the belief could justify denying an accommodation.”
So, is my Christian pharmacist a “true believer” or just a bitter busybody who didn’t get a date for Friday night? How do I tell?
“There is also a difference between a government enforced limited supply (cabdrivers) and one where the market can adjust.”
That’s a fair point, to some extent, though it’s not mentioned in the link you cite. You have to do some searching to learn that Minneapolis limits the number of cabs in operation. But if I live in a one-pharmacy town, I may not get the sort of choices the market ought to be providing. But, more to the point, I don’t believe the market should *have* to accomodate a pharmacist who refuses to dispense legal prescriptions–any more than a cab driver who refuses to take me where I want to go.
Verity:
You’re certainly right that not all accommodations are equal. While it’s almost certain that an alcohol-carrying putative passenger will be able to find another cab at the Twin Cities airport, there are many patients who would find themselves unable to obtain prescription contraceptives if their hometown pharmacist chose not to dispense them. So in this instance, accommodating the Roman Catholic pharmacists imposes a much greater burden on the public than does an accommodation for a Muslim cab driver.
“but Christian pharmacists will be forced to dispense a drug the operates to destroy human life.”
Because a ride home is like health care.