For the life of me, I cannot process the reasoning behind these decisions to withhold expected 'service' predicated on personal beliefs. Word trickles down from Seattle that a city police officer, who was assigned the lead-protection motorcycle role in a Gay Rights Parade, refused the assignment based on religious anti-gay beliefs.
Recently a Michigan doctor withheld medical care from a child because the parents are gay. Another West Coast doctor refused to treat a child because the parent had tattoos and the doctor said the Bible speaks to the fact that piercings and body-markings are taboos.
Based on this logic, I would thus assume that a Christian teacher could request earring-wearing students be removed from class and could refuse teaching the atheist child. A fireman can refuse to rescue the lesbian couple's baby from the burning apartment. I will anticipate a Walmart cashier refusing to checkout a customer wearing 'makeup' because it offends her Pentecostal beliefs.
I am appalled at any notion that people employed to serve the general public think they have some right to pick and choose whom they serve based on personal beliefs and convictions. People just need to do the job they signed on to do and 'get-over-themselves!'
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