The government is being hands off here, they are putting the boot on anyone who is not being, "politically correct." They aren't saying that pregnant women are free to drink, they are FORCING bartenders to serve alcohol to pregnant women, because other wise they'd be "discriminatory" or racist.
So you think the City has the right to punish any bartender who decides it's against his conscience? What punishment do you think that bartender should get?
I take it you think that businesses should be forced to serve at gay marriage etc. Maybe the New York City ca force Christians to pray to Allah? Just so they will be less Islamophobic?
I'm not saying the bartenders are or are being correct or not. What I'm saying is it is not the responsibility to determine the legitimacy of a business transaction when they are licensed to serve alcohol and the rules were established on who they could serve, i.e., people at the correct age and not reaching the point of intoxication (dram shop). The thought of an adult making a decision to do something within their legal choice and within the accepted and legal practices of their server then blaming anyone else for any collateral damage to "their" unborn child is just like blaming the gun manufacturers for someone killing someone with a gun. But serving the right clientel alcohol has no gender, asexual, color, religious, illegal or anything that can stop the transaction and never has. Gay marriages are an action based upon a blastphomy of all religions as they can not be accepted by God due to the religious writings in the Bible. So if a person refuses service to a gay marriage based upon their religious beliefs, they are practicing their religion and being forced by the government to go against their beliefs. So you're talking apples and oranges. What punishment should be given to the server? Nothing. He/she was within their legal rights. And if they are not within their conscience they should not be in that business as they have requirements to follow, those that are within the law. If I was running the establishment, and I have run them for the military, and one of my servers refused to serve someone for a personal reason, it better be a good one. The law is defined, just stay within it. red
nickcarraway
“So you think the City has the right to punish any bartender who decides it’s against his conscience?”
No, I didn’t say that. I said if the government is going to punish the server for serving a woman by allowing a suit to be accomplished then the mother should be punished also for the things I mentioned. If they are going to handle the situation legally, and ignore the laws in place for servers, then what’s right for the goose is right for the gander.
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