We Know What's Best For The Little Woman

[filkertom]

By way of vixyish: Read, and read. And then, after you're done throwing up and gnashing your teeth and cursing these fucking evil moron Puritan babysitter wannabes to the skies, act, and act.

ETA: Honestly, gang, while I appreciate you asking if you can copy a link, you can pretty much assume that if I put the links up here and tell you to go do something about them, [a] they're reasonably safe, at least on a browser/system security basis, and [b] it's okay to copy 'em to your own LJ or wherever. Dang, but I've got a polite buncha friends. :)

Comments

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

"However, you're giving the government the ability to force you to choose between employment and your religion."

It's called "life". If you're an observant Jew and the best jobs around require working on Saturday, or you're an observant Muslim and the best jobs around are at the brewery, well, it sucks to be you. That doesn't mean that the government should give you special privileges (and the ability to not do your job and get paid anyway is a pretty big honking special privilege).

"To force people to provide procedures to which they are absolutely opposed...."

Well, then, it's a good thing that the United States took care of that as of 6 December 1865.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

You clearly do need to explain further, since you haven't even begun to make any connection between the government and the following scenario:

Your Boss: The customer wants X.
You: I don't want to do X.
Your Boss: OK; I don't have any other problems with you, so I'll be glad to provide you with a reference when you find a job that doesn't require you to do X.