If you’re working for an at will employer, and you’re required to work weekends, then you should have to work. You can choose to work or you can find a way to work things out with your boss or choose to find a job that will let you have off. I don’t see any problem with this ruling. Everyone wins. It puts control in the hands of each individual. Doesn’t take away the rights of work places to set the schedule of their employees.
Exactly. It’s between employer and employee, and if employer demands what is against employee’s conscience to fulfilled, then they can go find another employer. I cannot for the life of me comprehend how posters on this thread call it “socialism” for the state to refuse to dictate terms between contracting parties. It must be they are so used to government dumping on religion—or at least unPC religion—that they interpret every little thing as such.
Now, the judge ruling that observing the Sabbath is not central to Christianity is plain ignorant, not to mention none of his business. But the solution isn’t to recognize the Sabbath as sacrosanct and team up with the employee to coerce better terms out of the employer. That’s the sorta thing that’s brought us to being unable to fire alchoholics or tell cashiers, for instance, not to wear belly shirts or giant hoops through their noses.