Reply #3: If I owned the cab company, I'd fire them!

[Hoosier Dem]

While I respect a persopn's religious beliefs, a person must also realize that by accepting a job in the public service sector involves WORKING WITH THE PUBLIC!!! i don't think its right to deny somebody service because they don't share your beliefs. Think of the idiocy this can lead to:

"My religion don't like them gays, so I won't drive a fire truck to a gay person's house."

"my religion says that the husband is the master of his home, so I won't take a domestic violence police reportif the husband beats his wife."

"My religion forbids the eating of meat, so i won't do a health inspection at that meat market."

"my religion teaches that minorities are inferior, so I won't deal with any minorities."

We had an incident here in Indiana in the last year or two where a pharmacist refused to fill prescriptions for birth control pills because his religion forbade contraception. Sorry, he should be fired, too. You cannot deny somebody service because your beliefs say so. If you hold these beliefs, you might think about some other job where your beliefs will not be put on the front line.

I consider myself a person of faith and I have never allowed my personal beliefs to dictate how I treat somebody in my professional sphere.