Now, from the stupid files.

I was in Minneapolis for several years, not the greatest place to live but not the worst. So, when I saw it on CNN national news today I was curious about the story. They reported that many of the cabbies have been refusing fares if the person is carrying alchohol. These cabbies are muslim and their religion prohibits them from drinking fermented wheat or grapes but can you show me in the Koran where it says you musn't transport the people who do drink fermented things while they are carrying, said things? You can't, because it doesn't. It is hard enough to get a cab in Minneapolis, so when you finally do get one to stop, I personally don't need the cabbie looking down on me because I choose to live diffirently than him. I know several pious people, who, when faced with doing a job they consider in conflict with their religious beliefs, don't do the job. Look at the people at Target recently, who refused to sell pork products. Nobody was asking them to eat, lick, chew, rub it on their naked flesh, or even smell it, they just had to run it over a laser and take money for it. Then you have pharmicists that were refusing to sell birth control, including condoms, day afters, and pills, ETC, because it was against their beliefs use them. Was anyone asking them to use the birth control? What do these holier that thou pharmicists want? Are the so pro-life that you are not even allowed to block conception? Mabye they are afraid that the biblical second coming is going to be stopped by a latex reservoir. I really don't think the book of Revelation is gonna be sidelined by a little spermicidal jelly but mabye, if you sell enough birth control, you may be able to slow the coming of the anti-christ. The reality of this situation is and allow me to be as delicate about this as I can. If you knowingly take a job that makes you do something that you feel is against you religion, that is your problem that you must deal with. Do the job you are paid for and don't pretend that all this religious conflict is news to you. Face it, you don't get a job at a porno shop and then refuse to sell gay porn, because only man and woman porn is right in gods eyes. The other choice you have is to not take the job of course. Mabye, if you think you can do the job at first, then find that you can't, you could try a novel approach and quit. Or is that too much to expect in our world now, for people to have to quit a job they don't agree with? Of course if you make it a big religious issue and you get fired, you get to sue the company for sacking you because you refused to do your job. Nice racket they got worked out for themselves there, damned if you do, saved if you don't.