pure insanity
This country cannot be saved. I think it’s already too late.
How come accommodating religious practices stops at making cakes?
So Muslims can have their freedom of religion to force their beliefs on companies, but Christian owned businesses are denied their freedom of religion and can be FORCED to participate in homosexual weddings?
How about job safety? Couldn’t this headgear interfere with wearing required safety equipment and be an OSHA violation? What about employers who require the wearing of uniforms? Would this head covering be an infection hazard in healthcare facilities? I know in Minneapolis Somali Muslim cab drivers have refused riders with service dogs and grocery clerks have refused to scan pork products. None of the rest of us could get away with crap, but we must kowtow to Muslims.
Suppose head scarfs became a fashion trend and took the country by storm?
So they’ll be OK when we all demand to wear masks to have our pictures taken at the DMV?
It’s my religion man, respect me
At a fashion store no less.
If you can’t set the atmosphere and market an image in your clothing line stores, then we are really deep into it.
Would the SCOTUS have ruled the same way in 1942 on a Japanese woman wanting a job at some store and being turned down?
Roberts can’t rewrite some more laws?
Oh my goodness its not Sharia Law. Would you feel the same way if they ruled in favor of a kid wearing a yarmulke?
You guys are so fast to ridicule anything that is not Conservative, Protestant Christian.
There is a whole wide world out there.
and A&F did not hire her because she was probably ugly, but they could not say that. That store is just horrible to work for anyway.
Now we know that Roberts is the real GWB!
You exaggerate. It’s a head scarf.
We can probably make a long list of Moslem religious practices that have already, or will become some sort of challenge in the workplace or elsewhere. This is what’s so stupid about the ruling. Islam actually has a large number of specfic practices whereas most other religions don’t. Just a few I’ve heard about:
1. Moslem cab drivers refusing to allow passengers with dogs, even service dogs.
2. Moslem clerks refusing to handle pork products in a supermarket.
3. Refusing to remove head covering for driver’s license photo.
4. This claim of discrimination concerning the head covering at A&F.
5. Demands for a special prayer room in schools and other areas.
6. Demands for time off to pray during the five times per day that fall within school or work hours.
7. Refusals to handle pork if working in a restaurant will certainly be an issue if not already.
8. And the don’t draw Mohammed prohibition.
9. Demand to have their prayer call blarred five times per day from mosques.
How many Moslem practices will they try to use to gain special treatment at school, or in the workplace, or elsewhere in society?
I’m sure there are more.
IMMA SUE EVERYONE.
Freepathons will be a thing of the past!
I understand the majority opinion was written by Justice Scalia, of all people.
The underlying arguments that were made on this Muslim woman's behalf are going to end up supporting identical "religious freedom" rulings in all of the ongoing legal challenges to ObamaCare.
Just something to think about, folks.
Several mistakes here.
1) Wearing a head scarf is not the same as the Hijab (full covering hiding the face)
2) The ruling was NOT based on Sharia it was based on US law for religious accommodation.
3) A head scarf does not cause unsafe conditions nor is a lack of head covering required to perform her job
4) This is not different than allowing a person to wear a cross
So can Christians wear crucifixes to work now?
Her Muslim “sisters” will be outstanding in Hefner’s “Bunny Clubs.” /s
Sad day for the area formally known as the United States.