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

[Mamyalynne]

I took FF's reply to mean the thread being sidetracked by you telling AH where and when he should curtail his replies.

I stand to be corrected,

[-Talbot-]

I stick by my post, andy typed

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



He of course didn't answer it at all ... because he can't.

[fiction-factory]

Exactly Mamyalynne-
Any good points or valid questions got lost in all the point scoring nonsense of point scoring.
I gave up after reading a string of posts that contained this sort of thing:


-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

[fiction-factory]

He of course didn't answer it at all ... because he can't.

I am not required to answer anything. Why sidetrack the debate. The issue here is that Tesco knew the situation, wanted to employ the girl, were happy to accommodate her but messed up by not having a process in place on this occasion. Simple.

[Mamyalynne]

No.

[-Talbot-]

I am making a valid point.

Even if you can't do it 'easily' you or andy are free to educate me on the logic of my query

[fiction-factory]

Your question doesn't interest me, Talbot- but maybe if you start another thread someone will deal with it. This one is about an employer slipping up when it thought it had an arrangement which suited all concerned

[-Talbot-]

Threads move on



And people dodge difficult questions.

[fiction-factory]

So, Talbot, do you accept Tesco is entitled to employ whoever it sees fit (provided it complies with the law) and that it's none of our business how it chooses to accommodate the wishes of staff, and that it was Tesco who slipped up on this occasion?

[Togo]

//The issue here is that Tesco knew the situation, wanted to employ the girl, were happy to accommodate her//

Ahh but would they be "happy" to employ a baker who was liable to object to a "celebrate same sex marriage" cake if his Christian beliefs were to be compromised? Would they accommodate him or her. We know the answer do we not.

[douglas9401]

Tut tut, Mr Hughes will be back to tell us about his 'so' rule if we're not careful, people.

[Togo]

Never had a Hindi refuse to serve me a beef vindaloo because it offended his "faith". Do Muslims have "special dispensation all of a sudden or do they have to go to their own enclaves to be happy? If so we must help them to be there.

[-Talbot-]

fiction-factory
So, Talbot, do you accept Tesco is entitled to employ whoever it sees fit (provided it complies with the law) and that it's none of our business how it chooses to accommodate the wishes of staff, and that it was Tesco who slipped up on this occasion?


Yes they are
None of my business (unless I'm told to bugzer off to another till because someone has some weird beliefs)
Who ever is at fault .. it wasn't the customer.


Your turn.

[Mamyalynne]

If that imagined scenario occurred at Tesco they'd get another Bakery Colleague to add the appropriate decoration rather than lose the sale.

[-Talbot-]

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.


Please .... anyone dismantle that and educate me.

[fiction-factory]

Okay, thanks- we agree regarding the OP.

[fiction-factory]

It's a non-sequitur, Talbot. Nothing to do with what's happened here.

[fiction-factory]

I assume Tesco came to an arrangement with their employee without either of them feeling feeling the need to run it past the Muslim Council, but maybe Tesco will review its approach to this now