As many of you may know by now, in Minnesota a group of Muslim taxi drivers are denying service to people with dogs or alcohol. Their service is now threatening to suspend these drivers if they continue to refuse service to these people.
Do these drivers have a right to refuse service on religious grounds to those with dogs or alcohol? Under the Civil Rights laws, no one is allowed to refuse a public service on account of race, creed, sex, or disability. Should these drivers be allowed to refuse their public service on a religious right? If Catholic taxi drives were to openly refuse service to women coming and going from abortion clinics they would be hunted and burned at the stake.
When you sign on to do a job, you are obligated to obey all the rules that govern that job. No one has forced these individuals to become taxi drivers, if they don’t want to service to those with dogs or unopened bottles of alcohol then they should quit. You do not have a religious right to deny service to someone. Hotels, buses, air lines, trains, restaurants cannot discriminate. Taxi services are essential in many ways in large towns, they are no different than public buses or trains. Your religious rights have nothing to do with whether or not you can or cannot provide a public service.
Hello, I am with you on this one! I am so outraged by the attitude of the many Muslims who have relocated to our country, and then expect us as Americans to adapt to their customs, their belief system. I have no issue with their beliefs. But when they begin to impose that belief system upon us; demanding that we conform our way of life to accomodate theirs, thats when I say enough! If they are unwilling to conform to the American way of life, they should pack it up and go back to where they came from! I am so fed up with the outrageous demands by the muslim population living here in the United States! If we as Americans do not put a stop to this kind of nonsense soon, it will be too late to turn the tide of Muslim fervor. One only has to look at France to see what kind of consequences we could be experiencing soon, if we fail to stem this kind of bizzare behavior.
I am in total agreement. I would add that goes for anyone immigrating to America, not just Muslims. They are the ones who must adapt, not us. It is our country, our language, our laws, our customs. Anytime it becomes to burdensome, pack your bags and leave.There was a slogan many years ago that became a very popular bumpersticker. ‘Love it or Leave it.’
Really, I must have missed that speech because I don’t recall Bush ever saying that. Of course if he did say that he isn’t wrong. We are NOT a democracy, we are a republic (Latin: res publica). What does this have to do with my blog entry? Thank you for the inspiration though.