Note the Christian iconography.
Posted on 03/01/2014 8:08:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
This story’s from Canada. But don’t worry, before you know it, a similar thing will happen in the United States. It will be interesting to see how liberals and their willing judicial accomplices will respond.
“Barbers in Toronto who refused to cut a woman’s hair have become the target of a human rights complaint, in a case that pits religious freedom against gender equality. When Faith McGregor went into the Terminal Barber Shop requesting a short haircut, she was told the shop only grooms men. The reason, co-owner Omar Mahrouk said, was that as a Muslim he could not cut the hair of a woman who was not related to him.”
The barber appealed to his Islamic religious beliefs for the refusal. This would be similar to an orthodox Jew or Islamic butcher who refused to slaughter a pig because of specific religious requirements regarding handling certain unclean meats.
While the rejection was not because the woman was a lesbian, it raises the same types of issues since the refusal of service had to do with gender. Under Canadian law, “business owners aren’t supposed to discriminate based on gender.” So what’s a Muslim barber to do?
Kind of makes you wonder why she picked this particular barber shop? Of all the barber shops in Toronto, she goes to one that is known for its Islamic beliefs. The place has been in business 1925 and no one has complained. Life goes on, even with the discrimination.
"Its client list includes former prime minister Paul Martin and actor Woody Harrelson, who can be seen posing with the owners in a photograph on the shop’s website. Some are standing behind the barbershop’s owners, pointing out that there are women-only spas and gyms."
If this woman doesn't like an all-male barber shop, then let go and open her own shop that only caters to lesbians. She's free to do so.
With the way the courts are ruling and the media are reporting on these types of issues, we're going to see homosexuals purposely going to places of business to test the legal limits of these new laws. The goal of the homosexual movement is to shut down all dissent. The next stop will be churches.
Because our courts have made the behavior of same-sexuality a special protected class, the rights of homosexuals trump religious freedom.
In the past, federal law has protected people from having to go against their religious beliefs when it comes to employment. For example, the EEOC sued a trucking company when Muslim drivers were fired because they would not deliver alcohol to customers.
“Star Transport, Inc., a trucking company based in Morton, Ill., violated federal law by failing to accommodate two employees because of their religion, Islam, and discharging them, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. . . .
“According to EEOC District Director John P. Rowe, who supervised administrative investigation prior to filing the lawsuit, ‘Our investigation revealed that Star could have readily avoided assigning these employees to alcohol delivery without any undue hardship, but chose to force the issue despite the employees’ Islamic religion.’”
The federal law protecting the Muslim drivers is no different from the Arizona law that Gov. Brewer vetoed.
“John Hendrickson, the EEOC Regional Attorney for the Chicago District Office said, ‘Everyone has a right to observe his or her religious beliefs, and employers don't get to pick and choose which religions and which religious practices they will accommodate.’”
Did you get that? “Everyone has a right to observe his or her religious beliefs.” So why do employees have a right to exercise their religious rights but not owners of a business?
Should Muslim barbers be forced to cut women’s hair? Should a Muslim butcher be forced to butcher a pig and other unclean animals?
Our government has opened a very big can of worms.
Problem is, Christians aren’t a protected class in the eyes of FedGov.
I love the SCHADENFREUDE graphic for these threads.
But don’t pump it into something it is not. They simply refuse to do women, not homos per se, in this story. No piggybacking groups.
This is rich.
I guess the lesbian didn’t get the memo to only go after Christian establishments.
Homosexual vs. muslim. Better watch out if the muslim barber reconsiders and invites the lesbian back for the haircut.
Somehow I don’t see them suing the barber.
I want my hog to be Halal. Should be no problem? Right? Come on courts. Protect my desires.
You need to be a fool to let a muslim with something sharp around your neck or anywhere else for that matter.
That will appease both parties.
There is something to say for perfection.
Judy, that was not nice, .... but it was funny, and true!
Oooh, goodie, protected class pecking order fight, Homosexual or Muslim, whom shall rule?
I wonder if Vegas has a line on this yet?
Just wait until the PETA crowd butts heads with the "Sex with Anyone & Anything" crowd!
If it doesn’t, it will. I’m putting $10 on the homos.
Forget about Muslim. What if the business owner (a barber, or a tailor) is simply not qualified to serve a woman? If I am a tailor who specializes in man's work pants, how can I take an order for an evening dress? Does the law somehow magically make me qualified to make dresses? Or does the law automatically forbid me from doing my job just because I haven't learned how to do some other job that I'm not interested in?
In this case the Muslim barber is right, as long as one supports freedom of religion. Perhaps if he is an employee, the owner may have a problem with him; but if he is a partner, or acts with agreement of the owner, it's their business. It may be that they are losing orders from female patrons; but it's their problem; and if they are alive and well since 1925 then I'd say they have enough customers.
I also don't know why the journalist just had to point out that the female customer was LGBT. It has nothing to do with the issue at hand, and I'm sure the barber never inquired about that little detail.
Note the Christian iconography.
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This is easy....the judges will always side with the savages......Muslims win over his one
This is what had to happen. The Dems/libs of the world have miraculously hell together a coalition of people that are polar opposites with “Enemy of my enemy” histronics. But it cannot go on forever. And now the chips are being called in by all of these groups at once.
It’s a liberal version of a bank run.
Maybe gays need to start issuing fatwas and going on jihad.
I meant to write “two protected classes”, but all of you seem to get it anyhow despite my worsening corrected vision.
If you throw in an environmental fanatic, a transgender person, and a undocumented landscaper in there, you would have the perfect cage match.
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