My daughter just racially and religiously profiled (VANITY)

3/1/2010 | MOM MD

[stormer]

“Good for you to start standing up for our Christian rights.”

LMFAO! Maybe when the first member of the Order of the Most Blessed Ski Jacket is martyred, you can lead the procession to the Crypt of Our Lady of Gortex. Religious freedom is a guaranteed right of every person in this county. That freedom includes “dressing funny”, but it doesn't include some nutty woman telling the guy at the DMV it's her daughter's religious prerogative to keep her coat on because she's pissed about the religiously observant who had been in front of her.

[Between the Lines]

A coat cult?

A cult of many colors.

[Liberty1970]

Just to let you know, I think you did a reasonably good job explaining yourself. I'm not sure why so many posters here are not 'getting it' about the coat thing.

There is a bit of a double-standard here.

[thefactor]

Hmmm, I took the MD as indicative of being a doctor. Maryland never crossed my mind. Interesting.

[glide625]

I say, “like ‘duh’”; you expect something different? What part of what’s been going on for the last 50 years didn’t you get?

Thankfully, my daughter doesn’t have to worry about this; she’s accepted a position as an exchange student in Switzerland; she’s caucasian and she won’t be coming back to what she refers to as “ghetto” nation.

An awful lot of you people are really, terribly clueless.

[La Lydia]

Thanks to Muslims and PC, we are second-class citizens in our own country.

[thefactor]

I messed up the first sentence of my previous post.

I meant to say that you were not discriminated against because you are of a particular religion. You were discriminated against because you are NOT a member of that particular religion.

[Osage Orange]

Cute kid....being used as a prop.

[stormer]

"You are in America now, please remove your funny hats and costumes."

[stormer]

Sounds like she'll fit right in.

I sure would hate for her to have to consort with all the mud-people here in the states.

[GovernmentShrinker]

You’re going to have a very tough time proving anything at this point, unless the facility is equipped with an unusually good video and audio surveillance device that caught all the relevant images and speech. What I think you should have done was to stand your ground and refuse, and call police if that didn’t work. Then they’d have had to tell police that they were refusing to take your daughter’s driver’s license photo unless she took her jacket off, and the hijabed women would either still be, or their new hijabed photos would be readily retrievable. That would have left a clear police report, and thus solid evidence for legal action.

[capacommie]

I think all men, christian men should wear hijabs, just to really eff with the mentality of gender apartheid, oppression that’s really behind the hijab...

in fact full burqas...

and then when DMV says “take it off” they can claim BOTH religious discrimination and homophobia!!!

Time to fight back against these creeping sharia types.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Lol. How true.

[xsmommy]

i am responding so that you know that not ALL freepers are literalists, and that someone actually understood that keeping a coat on is not REALLY a tenet of your religion and that you are just disgusted with the coddling that those of the jihadist religion get from the gov’t : )

[Gay State Conservative]

Don't know if your screen name means that you're a physician or that you're from Maryland but if it's the latter,I wouldn't bother.Only oppressed minorities are protected in Maryland and we all know that Christians are the *oppressors* not the oppressed.

[Niteranger68]

You just planted FReeper a$$hole bait. Watch them flock to it.....

[GovernmentShrinker]

Why isn’t the religion of “freedom” sufficient? If there’s no need for Muslim or Orthodox Jewish women to have a driver’s license photo with nothing touching the edges of their faces, then there’s no need anyone to have such a driver’s license photo. Many people don’t believe in any organized religion or even in God, but believe just as fervently in the right of human beings to be free of arbitrary control by government.

[trisham]

Did they tell you the reason for their request?

[TexasCajun]

Give ‘em Hell Mom!

[Windflier]

FWIW, I agree with, and understand your indignation and anger.

What’s really surprising to me, is that so many on this thread don’t seem to grasp the wrongness of the double standard which your daughter was subjected to, or they seem to feel that yours (and ours) is a “lost cause”.

I thought that Free Republic supported those who are willing to fight back against the dark forces that are undermining our nation and our way of life.

Mom, you were right to resist that small act of tyranny. It’s these small encroachments, multiplied across the hundreds of millions of our citizens that are steadily eroding the very foundations of our culture and our cohesion as a nation.

Each and every small and cowardly submission to these despicable acts emboldens those who would steal our birthright and dismantle our country.

Your small act of rebellion may not have been effective, but that’s not what matters. What matters is that you had the courage to fight back, and did.

I salute you.