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Article #86202Re: Freedom of religion?!
From: Melissa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00
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In article <35bf7afa.1067638@news1.newscene.com>, not@here.com (Guess Away) wrote: >On 28 Jul 1998 19:24:39 EDT, Melissa9X@Xconcentric.net (Melissa) >wrote: > >> There's this cute young woman in a fast food place near here who has >> told me several times that she loves my pentagram around my neck. So >> we started talking today and she said that she likes pentagrams but >> her boss won't let her wear one at work because it "offends >> customers". But they will allow people to wear crosses at work! >> >> I told her that I'm personally offended by crosses but I think that if >> we have freedom of religion, people should be able to wear whatever >> they want. >> >> I'm really offended by this. >> >> Is it legal for a company to allow people to wear crosses to work, but >> not symbols of other religions like Paganism, like this place has >> done? > >If memory serves, it is legal for any company to impose whatever dress >code it wants to, so long as it is equally enforced. First of all, is it a dress code? And how is it equally enforced if they allow crosses but not pentagrams? - Melissa Moderate Centrist Libertarian, Member: NRA, SWARM, Mensa Personal web pages:http://www.concentric.net/~Melissa9/ What is it exactly that Dan Rather, Roy Romer, and Bill Maher don't understand about the 2nd Amendment?!: http://www.concentric.net/~Melissa9/2nd.htm That's my opinion. To email me, remove both spam proofing X's in my email address. If you have anything negative to say, please do it in the newsgroups and not in my private email box. Hostile or harassing email will probably be instantly deleted and may result in complaints to the party's ISP. "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." - W. Somerset Maugham, "Strictly Personal," 1941 "Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance." - Woodrow Wilson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,98f13d0d2417f3ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 1026d8,98f13d0d2417f3ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1026d8,public From: Melissa9X@Xconcentric.net (Melissa) Subject: Re: Freedom of religion?! Date: 1998/07/29 Message-ID: <6por1a$343@examiner.concentric.net> X-Deja-AN: 376218790 References: <6plmjn$ai0@examiner.concentric.net> <35bf7afa.1067638@news1.newscene.com> Organization: Concentric Internet Services Newsgroups: co.general,co.politics