Looks like he was fired because he was rude to customers.
FWIF...Judge is Reagan appointee.
If you don't do the job, you don't get paid.
Man, they are really getting short of pharmacists out there, if they hired this guy with those conditions in the first place. (And they are. Not a bad profession, but I think it's a five-year program).
I do, however, think the state board discriminated against him on the basis of his religion. The state has no business ordering him to take "ethics" classes.
"he said Noesen went too far by putting customers who called about birth control on hold indefinitely and refusing to get service for those who showed up in person without notifying other pharmacists."
In my opinion the firing was perfectly legitimate... Nobody has the right to impose his religious convictions on others!
Okay, show me the balance? Sounds like balance is provide service and leave religion at home. Of course if the guy was a muskie I'm sure the outcome would have been different.
I felt sorry for the guy until all the details came out. Until today, I didn't know the fact that he was a Temp.
I didn't know they had to drag him from the store when he was told to leave.
I didn't know he would leave people on hold and not turn them over to others for assistance.
I didn't know he had only worked there for FIVE DAYS, LOL!
Sounds like a control freak above all else.
Oh boy. What a Napoleonic nutcase.
Looks like this will head to the Supreme Court. A ruling in WA state went the other way.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5782404p-5168702c.html
If your religion or beliefs interfere with your professional performance, you shouldn't be in that field. A doctor doesn't have a right to refuse a blood transfusion because his religion proscribes it. Maybe someone thinks that Viagra is immoral because its sole purpose is to enhance hedonistic pleasure.. I don't like either, but I'd rather see contraceptive use than baby-killing.
Re: "...The case prompted Republican lawmakers to introduce a bill prohibiting state regulators from punishing pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control but the plan failed to win approval in either chamber.
Adler said the staffing agency was aware of his religious beliefs when he was hired and signed an agreement allowing him to decline to fill birth control prescriptions or answer inquiries about them. But she said he became a disruption when he repeatedly failed to find other pharmacists to help the patients after just five days on the job.
Noesen, of St. Paul, Minn., argued the agreement he signed allowed him to simply walk away from them and that his boss was pressuring him to help customers seeking birth control..."