I’m not up on this story, so sorry for ignorance but why would she be JAILED? Why not just fired? I’m not understanding this. Seems like it’s just for politics.
Also, gay marriage is the law of the land even if it isn’t your religion’s law. If you job is to give marriage licenses, you have to give them to gays. It’s a stupid protest because it will bring NOTHING. It will change NOTHING. Another clerk will be brought in.
Imagine a hospital worker who is Jehovas Witness (doesn’t believe in transfusions?) who gets transferred to a transfusion dept. They would have to beg for a transfer, or quit. If as a Jew I were told I’d have to work on Saturday, I’d have to go against my religion or quit. You can be asked anything legal by your boss, and you need to perform it. Period. You can always quit.
This was a stupid performance.
Natural law trumps mans' law and those that choose to obey mans law and disobey G*ds' law risk losing their souls to Satan.
Actually, Yaelle, that is **NOT** the law. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which codifies much older principles and precedents, was put into place precisely to protect religious minorities such as those of your Jewish faith from being abused by employers.
As with most laws, the devil is in the details. To make a very long and complicated issue short, if you claim a sincerely held religious belief prevents you from doing something your employer wants, the courts do not have the right to inquire into whether your beliefs are right or wrong. All they can do is determine whether your beliefs are sincerely held.
Once that has been determined, your employer **MUST** show a good-faith effort to accommodate your sincerely held religious beliefs. Often (actually nearly all the time) that's possible. An Orthodox Jew or Seventh Day Adventist can and should be allowed to work on Sundays rather than Saturdays. If the employee must get home before sundown on Friday to observe the Sabbath, that employee can be allowed to come in early on Friday morning.
Those are common-sense accommodations. Most of the time they work. Exceptions exist, but the burden of proof is on the employer to prove that an accommodation cannot be offered once employees have proved the sincerity of their religious belief.
Conservative Christians, now that it's clear we are in the minority (at least on the national level) are going to have to become much more aware of our rights under the law. Minority religions have asked for and received accommodations for a very long time. Those accommodations don't have a “don't apply” clause for people who wear crosses.