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Has religious sensitivity gone too far? This just seems a bit much for me.

Asked by elbanditoroso (33174points) June 3rd, 2013

Some Muslim truck drivers have refused to drive trucks that are transporting alcohol. (alcohol being a forbidden substance to devout muslims).

No one is asking the Muslims to drink the stuff, just to drive a truck down the highway and pull up to a loading dock.

There appear to be serious parallels to the “druggists don’t want to sell birth control pills and Plan-B” argument.

I have rights as a business owner and as a consumer to buy what I want when I want. Are these fundamentalists taking away my right to commerce?

Read the entire story of the lawsuit – this seems like a bizarre way to operate in a free society.

http://www.volokh.com/2013/06/02/eeoc-claims-trucking-company-must-accommodate-muslim-employees-religious-objections-to-transporting-alcohol/

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