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In reply to the discussion: Muslim staff can discriminate based on their religious beliefs. [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)Get exported to the US - I'm okay. Liquor is one thing - but if pushed I would say if we need to reduce that age to 18 across the board. I don't want the religious beliefs of anyone to hurt commerce in the US - that includes a situation like this, the abortion pill, etc etc.
Perhaps because we have a high percentage of those who practice Judaism in my area - but this is like a Jewish cashier at Wegmans not wanting to ring up Non-Kosher items. Or a Mormon or Born Again Christian refusing to ring up cigarettes. Or a Jehovah's witness refusing to ring up a Birthday card.
I'm not so arrogant as to tell the people of GB what should or should not be allowed - expand that to Israel and Muslim Majority countries - but I can read this and feel the same way towards a store as I do Hobby Lobby and Chik-Fil-A about a store in the USA catering to this.
Note - I'm a Unitarian. Tolerance towards the beliefs and practices of all - even if in my day to day belief I find some things utterly offensive - I zip lips and carry on. . . To include the insult of In God We Trust on a human invention called money, and One Nation Under God in my pledge, and the antiquated practice of swearing on a bible when our highest "word" in the land is a working and changeable document called The Constituion.