Posted on 09/05/2015 6:30:01 AM PDT by HomerBohn
A Muslim flight attendant has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit after being suspended from her job for refusing to serve alcohol to customers because of her religious beliefs.
Charee Stanley, a Michigan employee of ExpressJet who converted to Islam a month after being hired by the company, has enlisted the Council on American Islamic Relations to help her in her efforts, Detroit CBS-TV affiliate WWJ reported.
“We notified ExpressJet Airlines of its obligation under the law to reasonably accommodate Ms. Stanley’s religious beliefs,” her CAIR attorney, Lena Masri, said at a news conference Tuesday. “Instead, ExpressJet chose to violate Ms. Stanley’s constitutional rights, placed her on administrative leave for 12 months, after which her employment may be administratively terminated.”
According to Masri, Stanley had an arrangement with other flight attendants that they would serve alcohol on her flights, but that stopped after another flight attendant filed a complaint against Stanley over her Muslim head scarf.
The executive director of CAIR-Michigan told WWJ News that the organization reached out to the company before filing the lawsuit, but that the response “was not positive.”
ExpressJet spokesman Jarek Beem issued a statement to WWJ News on Tuesday.
“At ExpressJet, we embrace and respect the values of all of our team members,” he said. “We are an equal-opportunity employer with a long history of diversity in our workforce. As Ms. Stanley is an employee, we are not able to comment on her personnel matters.”
Stanley contends her suspension is unfair.
“I don’t think that I should have to choose between practicing my religion properly or earning a living,” she told WWJ News. “I shouldn’t have to choose between one or the other, because they’re both important.”
Now let’s see whether liberal groups demand that she find another job, as they have of Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who is in jail after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
What’s the difference between this case and Kim Davis?
You perform the requirements of the job.
If you don’t like the requirements of the job, you quit.
Trump had the correct response. He’s consistent and smart.
“What’s the difference between this case and Kim Davis?
Kim Davis has a government job. Having said that, she could have been accommodated especially since the law was changed after she was elected.
Fire her.
There is nothing in the Koran that prevents a Moslem from serving alcohol to an infidel. It only says that Moslems cannot drink alcoholic beverages.
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Goes to show that their are certain people out there trying to get the law to work in such a way that they can have their cake & eat it,too. Then they want to prevent it from working this way for others. We need something we don’t have right now in this country.....real leadership.
Sorry for the grammar error in the first sentence.
***Fire her ignorant ass!***
Agreed! She is not touching the product. It is in a sealed bottle!
Islam IS evil.
“get the law to work in such a way that they can have their cake and eat it too”! Does this sound similar to the Sweet cakes by Melissa Oregon lawsuit?
No law was changed ! The supreme court made a ruling, not a law. How can she follow a ruling? It is not a law? And if you think that we are no longer a representative republic then continue to accept this deceit.
She could just as well have been hired by a tavern to work as a barmaid. Everyone knows that barmaids serve alcohol and everyone knows that flight attendants serve alcohol. You can’t do either job if you refuse to serve alcohol.
This is what makes the Kim Davis question tough.
Most freepers here are quick to side with the law in the case of the muslim woman, but not so in the case of the Christian woman.
The argument in defense of Davis needs to be grounded on something other than religious freedom or else we’re going to be hypocritical.
Quite the oincidence that she converted to Islam a month after taking that job. NOT! She’s an activist.
The goal of the homosexuals is to force conservatives to justify/endorse homosexual based marriage licenses. Use the enemy against the enemy rule for radicals.
This happened at Disneyland too.
The push is on. They won’t relent. Unless we stop them.
Reminds me of the vegetarian lady chef on a popular cooking show—she was complaining bitterly about having to cook meat.
No one assured her there would be no meat; to the contrary, she knew there would be various kinds of meat on the menu.
As here, I’m fed up with the the ROP and our muslim CIC.
Have you noticed there are no women in most of the photos of the Syrian “refugees”. They are all young, vigorous males.
Why do you think that is? “Honor killings” are a distraction from the serious business of invasion.
To: HomerBohn
Totally different... Kim davis was elected, mo ho was hired
9 posted on September 5, 2015 9:57:11 AM EDT by teeman8r
Get your own alcohol and ban this farce the supreme court calls marriage. Marriage is a religious covenant, not a govt union.
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