Posted on 08/10/2010 10:56:17 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
“Good to know you’re OK with me firing a guy who refuses to work on Sundays.”
If it was part of the job description going in, Yes LOL!
Adios Husain!
I am of different opinion.
Most Conservatives, specially Christian Conservatives decry the fact that liberals/Elitists/NWO are systematically trying to eradicate presence of God and Religion from our daiily lives, from public square. Thus the uproar regarding kids not allowed to wear crosses in school, and football players who tried to PRAY before the game, not allowed to do so.
Then everyone was in favor of supporting those players and believed they should be allowed to kneel and pray before the game.
However, because the player in question happens to be Muslim, then people are not stepping back and looking at the big picture and making rash comments just because the guy is Muslim.
The way rights work, you can’t protect them selectively. If people are going to be for Christian Kids to have a right to pray before their school game, and for Shawn Green to respect his religion and sit out a game or two, then they should also be for protecting the rights of Muslim man to pray the way he wants to.
If the issue is that Vikings are not getting maximum effort, then it is a patter between Vikings and the player in question. They are the ones paying him and angry mob should have no impact.
If some employer feels they can’t hire someone because the can NOT accomodate that person’s religious beliefs, then they have a right to let them go. If the issues goes to court, then Supreme Court should decide it and then we all have to live with it.
I predict zero interceptions for this guy. After all, he won’t touch the pigskin.
Wilfs are serious dirtballs. I look forward to this battle of political correctness.
Its their religion!!
When are the antics of these fanatics going to stop shocking us???
THIS IS ISLAM!!!! ITS THE WAY THEY BEHAVE!!! From stoning people to beating women to killing “unbelievers” to trying to take over the world!!
Yeah, good luck with that.
Romans 10: 1-10
There is no Biblical New Testament law saying you must not work on Sunday. The Sabbath starts on Friday at sunset and ends on Saturday at sunset, if you are following Judaic law. Christians are permitted to work 7 days a week, and eat pork, snakes, and other delectables.
Wait....what did he blow up???
Sandy Koufax regularly pitched on the Jewish Sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday), and never pitched on the first day of Passover, when the Passover Seder is held. He also never pitched on Rosh Hashanah.
In 1961, Yom Kippur began at sundown on September 19 and ended at sundown September 20. Koufax, as usual, fasted during the holiday. On the night of Sept. 20, though, he was on the mound and pitched the Dodgers to victory with a 13-inning, 15-strikeout, 205-pitch performance
Another prominent player who faced this classic dilemma was Indians third baseman Al Rosen, a four-time All-Star and 1953 AL MVP. Rosen, who played from 1947 to 1956, never played on Yom Kippur, but had a tough decision in 1954 -- the Indians were playing in the World Series against the New York Giants, and Yom Kippur fell during the World Series schedule.
Shawn Green, also of the Dodgers, is following in Koufax's footsteps tonight. Yom Kippur begins this evening, and Green is sitting out a critical game against the San Francisco Giants. Green will be missed -- he has already set the Dodgers record for home runs in a season with 48 and counting, and the Dodgers are in a desperate chase for the pennant, three-and-a-half games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West, and two behind the Giants. But Green grew up hearing about Koufax's demonstration of faith, and is determined to follow his example, saying, "There is nothing I would rather do than play against the Giants in a pennant race, but some things take precedence over that."
using that standard Randy 'I play when I want to play' Moss would have never played again. Problem for this guy is he's not nearly as talented as Moss was.
You say you are of a different opinion, but everything you wrote agrees with what I said.
If the player can work his religious practices around his job, fine. If he can’t, he needs to find another way to make a living.
And this has nothing to do with players praying before a game.
How does this devoutly Muslim safety come to terms with handling the pigskin?
Vikings got effort, at least early on......but Raiders, they ought to at least try to take Moss to court. He gave them nothing.
synthtic receiver gloves?
“Hakeen Olajuwon won two NBA Championships and a Gold Medal on the USA Olympic Basketball Team while strictly following Islam.”
‘Wait....what did he blow up???’
Maybe he wasn’t that devout. Perhaps he just molested little girls and beat his wives!
Then, Mr. O’ Neill should find another job. I choose my religion, then I give up the job. Can’t keep your cake and eat it to.
“I play when I want to play.”
— Randy Moss, Vikings receiver, in November 2001 after being criticized for not giving 100 percent all the time.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/2000s/12/03/quotes/index.html#ixzz0wEJ6Ton4
Randy was a devout follower of ...Randy.
Did Shawn Green’s compatriots (thousands upon thousands of them) massacre others in the quest for world domination of their religion?
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