25 Jan 2007
Cabbies refuse customers carrying booze

OK, this got me steamed. Just like the pharmacists who refuse to provide birth control, these boneheads have confused the ideals of religious freedom with the idiotic notion that the world owes them a living on their terms, no matter what.

Applying a bit of reductio ad absurdum might be instructive: Pentecostal cabbies won't have to haul folks from dances and not have the company can'em. Christian Scientist cops won't have to call the paramedics and they'd still be walking the beat. Hindus could demand jobs at McDonalds even though they refuse to touch the beef ...

It's one thing to own your own business and refuse to serve somebody: Hel, I've done that! And that's my absolute right - it is, after all, my business. But for an employee to think they should keep their job for after refusing to perform their assigned duties (be it hauling fares or selling pills) is moronic. If you don't like what your job requires you to do, find another job. And if you you don't do your job and get fired because of it, don't come crying about "religious freedom" ... you're just belittling those who really are persecuted unfairly for their beliefs.

In the past five years, 5,400 would-be taxi passengers at the [Minneapolis-St.Paul] airport were refused service for this very reason, said the Metropolitan Airport Commission, or MAC. Last May, passenger Bob Dildine says he waited for 20 minutes, and five cab drivers would not give him and his daughter a ride. He was carrying wine he bought on vacation.

(link) [CNN.com]

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