A story of discrimination

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A story of discrimination

by Kaili Joy Gray aka Angry Mouse

Sun Jul 25, 2010

This will be short. It will not be sweet.

Edwin A. Graning worked as a bus driver for the Capital Area Rural Transportation System in Texas. On January 29, 2010, he was assigned to give a woman a ride to a location in Austin. He refused. He was fired.

And now he's suing. You see, Mr. Graning believes he was fired because of his religious beliefs. He believes he is the victim of discrimination. He wants his job back. He wants back pay. And he wants money for his “pain, suffering, and emotional distress.”

Why did he refuse to do his job?

Because the woman he was supposed to drive wanted to go to Planned Parenthood. And Mr. Graning believed that she was going to get an abortion. It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that she might have been going for a pap test or breast exam, that it was, in fact, unlikely that she was seeking an abortion because despite the constant smears from the forced birth movement, abortion is only 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides.

It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that abortion is a legal medical procedure, and that the woman whom he refused to drive, even had she been going for an abortion, was merely exercising her legal rights.

It didn't matter to Mr. Graning because despite his lawsuit, he doesn't give a damn about legal rights.

Mr. Graning believes it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate against women, to deprive them of their rights, to deny them access to legal medical procedures to which they are entitled -- all under the guise of "religious beliefs."

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/25/887220/-A-story-of-discrimination

[DesertFlower]

1. he's suing? she should sue him.

[rbixby]

2. I just don't get it

You're entitled to whatever your beliefs are, and you're free to practice them however you want, but when you work in the public sector, you might have to deal with people and things that aren't in line with what you believe in. If you want to practice your bigotry (I don't know how else to describe it), you need to find yourself a job in the private sector, preferably in a church, where you're free to hate and discriminate as much as you want.

[Statistical]

3. He is the idiot of the day.

Sad thing is he will be utterly shocked when predictably the lawsuit is thrown out of court. For decades he will fume about some liberal socialist justice who denied who "justice".