If A Christian Couple Can Be Fined For Refusing To Sell Something They Believe Is Against Their Religion Then Why No Action Against This Person?

[youngmafbog]

OK, so IMHO religion is the root of most evil but lets forget that bit because what I am trying to understand is why there seems to be one rule for one and another for a certain other religion we all have to bend ovcer backwards to accommodate?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4070144/Muslim-Tesco-cashier-refuses-sell-bottle-wine-shopper-against-religion.html

[andy-hughes]

TWR - please read my post at 13:54.

[TWR]

Exactly.

[Baldric]

///I am not sure that the employee is a 'girl' since I don't believe he age is advised///

From the red link at bottom of Mail article

\\\Tesco later said the shop worker, aged in her early 20s, had not served him due to her “religious beliefs.”\\\

[Baldric]

And see post @ 13:03

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
Talbot - //That is where you should have stopped your post //

I'll try and remember that next time.

Note to self - additions to posts when advised they are finished is not permitted.

Likewise, thinking while posting is not acceptable.

OK now?
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andy-hughes
As to the wider question of why religious beliefs should be placed above others, I really can't answer that easily,



You put the word 'easily' when you actually mean't 'can't' full stop

There is no logical reason that one person's belief should top another person's belief just because they say they are religious. If you think there is then you support discrimination.

Am I right or am I wrong? (that's not for andy that is for every poster)

[fiction-factory]

Shame threads are spoiled by this nonsense.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot //You put the word 'easily' when you actually mean't 'can't' full stop //

No, I meant what I posted, that's why I posted it.

I am certainly not going to join you in your pointless navel-gazing about your perceived notions of what I am saying, and hopefully no-one else will either.

[Zacs-Master]

This thread should never have existed tho ff. or at least the ire should have been aimed at Tesco rather than the woman.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master - it only needs people with a penchant for deciding that Muslims are trouble makers, combined with an inability to read a news story and understand it correctly, and you have the result that is some of the nonsense that has populated this discussion.

[jno]

not even any need for ire at all, ZM? Nothing's happened any more than, as Islay pointed out, anything noteworthy has happened if an assistant says "I'm just closing up here, can you go to another counter please?" Nobody's been discriminated against. This is such a non-story.

[Zacs-Master]

You missed a desire to try and label people lefty 'xxx' (insert derogatory compound noun of ones choice).

[andy-hughes]

jno - it's another Muslim-bashing opportunity - that makes it worth a comment or twelve from the usual suspects!

[Zacs-Master]

Jno, there could have been a small amount in sympathy with the man, or at Tesco's slight inefficiency. But that would have been rather pathetic. ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

// Careful naomi....being logical and rational doesn't always go down too well here on AB !//

well let her start ! let her start before criticising her [ erm being logical and rational]

and

//Here we go, more posting from the usual suspects proudly gloating about what is correct with no concept of what is right. Togo//

am in complete agreement with that one

Did poor dry Christian Mr Saunders get his veeno ?
and if the answer is 'yes' as it is - - then they didnt refuse to serve/sell him alcohol - did they ?

The christian bakers - the couple didnt get their cake from them ever

and if they didnt refuse to sell him the drano
then what are we arguing about

Redirecting him I think was a mistake ( not pubishable in criminal law) and I think she should have got someone to do it on her till - young cashiers for example are not allowed to SELL alcohol and have to get a supervisor to ting the till ....

and when this happens AB is not full of complaints from the usual suspects proudly gloating about what is correct with no concept of what is right, at length with no great logic and always in impenetrable rhyming slang

well observed and said Togo

[andy-hughes]

I think he's made himself look foolish by making a fuss over nothing at all.

[Zacs-Master]

Again.

[-Talbot-]

fiction-factory
Shame threads are spoiled by this nonsense.


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ell me the logical reason then FF

[ichkeria]

"Ichy. You may be interested to know that other famous case (the Bed & Breakfast one) has moved on. The B&B is back in business and now openly turns away gay couples.
Apparently they are now legally a non- profit making set up and their main purpose is as a "religious retreat". Right ho. "

Well, I guess that is one way round it. Good luck to them, if that is what they are doing, although it is still sad.

[Mamyalynne]

Wonder if the FIFA game is any good?