Human beings are not generic round pegs that are carefully shaved down to a
uniform size on a lathe so as to fit perfectly into every round hole. When
society, through the force of law, demands that everyone be the same and
behave the same, demanding that people surrender their deeply-held
Hard to imagine how telling a cab driver to pick up a passenger shaves
down the person's faith.
Let's try it another way: suppose devoutly Muslim (or Jewish) men
drave susbtantial numbers of cabs and refuse to pick up fares of women
who are not modestly dressed. No shorts or short skirts? Are
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It's only hard to imagine that telling a Muslim cab driver to
knowingly assist someone
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not about days off, but about doing the job on the days you work; one is
an accommodation
Again, the employement compesation is different; this is about a duty of
common carriers to accept all people. Moreover, it opens too many other
exceptions -- pagan symbols, race mixing (Bob Jones Cab Co. won't pick
up mixed race couples); I think we all think of many examples of how
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