So some christian registrar thinks that same sex civil partnerships are sinful and refuses to officiate at them. Now as far as i am aware her job was to fulfil the duties of a registrar not to shove her bigoted christian morality down peoples throats. She is at liberty to believe what she likes however surely it is her responsibility to take a job that does not force her to go against her religion. If her employer cannot discriminate against her because of her religion how come she gets to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation.
This kind of crap makes my blood boil, if you won't do all aspects of a job why should you continue to be paid for it. How far would i get as an atheist siting a moral objection to something i wonder? what if i was a surveyor but refused to enter a church because of what it represents, does anyone really think i would get any more than very short thrift from my boss and a tribunal would laugh at me.
It is strange how she is allowed to discriminate against gay people, replace gay with black and suddenly the whole situation would be very different. Not only would she have been sacked but also vilified by the very people/papers that are citing her bravery for fighting for her beliefs.
I think the worst thing about this case is that it is being heralded as a victory for religious liberty, rather than condemned as another example of religious intolerance
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This woman falls into company with doctors who refuse to perform abortions even when the mother was raped or her life is in danger, and pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning after pill. They all should be relieved of the heavy ethical burden that gainful employment has put on them - by termination of said employment.
Lt them find other jobs that don't upset their delicate ethical constitutions...
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Did this happen over in the UK? I thought that kind of kookiness was relegated to just the US. The previous commenter already mentioned it, but I find that the pharmacists not filling out birth control prescriptions to be highly offensive. This person should have been fired. They have a job to do including all that it entails.
P.S. Glad to see you're still blogging.
No this is very much in the UK, however it begins to look like she may be a little bit of a hypocrit as well as a bigot. It seems that she had a child out of wedlock, nice to see that she is picking and choosing the rules she 'Has' to follow or her god will smite her forever.
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