Friday, April 18, 2014
Cleveland Taxi Drivers- Homophobes?
Not long ago, there was a big outcry because some pastry shop owner refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple due to his Christian convictions. A lawsuit ensued. Let's see how much "legs" this story has. Muslim cab drivers in Cleveland are refusing to drive cabs that have an ad for the Gay Games.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/18/muslim-drivers-at-cleveland-airport-refuse-to-drive-cabs-with-gay-games/
Who's homophobic now?
(Yes, I would have made the cake and driven the cab, in case you were thinking of asking.)
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"I would have made the cake and driven the cab"
Not at the same time, I hope. That would be dangerous.
Travis,
Maybe I would have eaten the cake while driving.
I would have driven the cab, and I might have made the cake, but I uphold the right of a cake decorator NOT to put a gay message on a cake. It doesn't matter if the customer is gay, but the artist doesn't have to express a viewpoint that is repugnant to them. Yes, that also means that a Republican print shop owner doesn't have to take a job from the DNC. There are plenty of printers who will.
I presume that would extend to healthcare providers who decline to furnish what are essentially abortifacients, since that is repugnant to them?? Sounds like the court(s) are wrong on this one so far, no??
elwood, I am not aware that courts have ever ordered a doctor or nurse to directly participate in an abortion. I have heard of hospitals threatening nurses with loss of their job if they refused to participate in whatever procedure they were assigned to. I think there is room for more flexible HR policies than that, and have so argued when it came up.
There is in fact no constitutional right to an abortion. There is a constitutional restraint on the police powers of the state intervening to impose criminal penalties. If there is not one doctor in the country who, free of any and all coercion, is willing to perform an abortion, then a woman could not obtain one. So it goes.
I do think that when it comes to selling a standard medication over the counter (or by prescription at the little window), employees of a pharmacy do not have the right to refuse to hand over a lawful prescribed medication to a willing purchaser.
As to the courts, if you are referring to the Supreme Court of New Mexico, e.g., yes, I think they are wrong, fatuous, pompous, and shallow. But so far, the U.S. Supreme Court has been willing neither to over-rule them or uphold them.
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