She was forced into a *religious observance* not her own - to refrain from the eating of a certain food. It was not *her* religious view that this was a "bad" meat. This view was made to be a *condition of employment.* IOW, to keep her job, she had to observe a *Muslim religious requirement.* This is clearly a violation of federal law.
So how would you all who support Rising Star feel if this woman had been made to wear a head scarf *as a condition of employment?*
If it wasn't for the fact that Ms. Morales claims to be a Christian, I don't think I would be so tough on her. She knew from the beginning that the people there didn't want to see her eating pork and she took the job anyway. If it was really a hardship for her to stay away from pork, she should not have taken the job.
I would have had more sympathy for her if she had been a long term employee swept up in a buyout or something by a Muslim conglomerate. But she knew they were Muslim from the beginning and she knew that they didn't want pork products on the premesis from the beginning, so for her to bring pork products on site, like canadian bacon pizza and BLT sandwiches was just disrespectful.
Romans 11:8-13 says, "But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. 9 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
Now, as far as Scripture is concerned, pork (of any type) is NOT food so that is beyond this point. The point I would submit to Ms. Morales or anyone who claims to be a Christian is that the Bible never calls upon us to assert our "rights" at the expense of our responsibility to be salt and light to a world starving for the gospel. Ms. Morales felt that her "right" to eat pork and offend Muslims was more important than her duty to be a light to their salvation.