RE: Dear Theist: Do Your Job or Find Another
October 18, 2011 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2011 at 7:22 am by lucent.)
(October 12, 2011 at 4:43 pm)Phaedra Wrote: I found this article on the blog Skepchick.
"You know, I get that it’s a tough economy out there. Lots of people are taking jobs that aren’t necessarily optimal, like working at a fast food joint, cooking meth, or making YouTube videos. And not everyone is able to choose a job that is 100% in line with his or her morals, like a vegetarian flipping burgers, an ex-DEA agent cooking meth, or a normal human being making YouTube videos.
Or like a fundamentalist Christian who is a town clerk in New York, where same-sex marriage was recently made legal.
That’s right, there are people in New York who are refusing to approve the marriage licenses of same-sex couples because of “religious freedom.” Here’s one now!"
Full article here.
Did you somehow miss the part when she said that she just wants to be exempted from this particular duty? It's a simple issue with a simple solution: give the task to someone with no moral objection. It is an issue of religious freedom, and if the government refuses to exempt her, they are to blame. If you think this is unreasonable, do you feel that transgender people should be able to dress as women at work, as the law states in California?
