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Fuck this nurse. If you can't do your job without your personal beliefs getting in the way, you should NOT have that job.
The patients don't come in looking for a spiritual advisor. They want healthcare professionals. >

And refusing to fill a valid prescription is completely unprofessional. >

Yeah you can ask for reasonable accommodations for your religious beliefs in the workplace, but if it means you're unable to do your job entirely good luck with the lawsuit. >

They want to turn it into a battle where they're being persecuted for their religion, that way all the bullshit they get told in church about how they are targets for being Christian will be proved right
But the truth is, they didn't say, "take off your cross and deny christ or else we're firing you" 
They said "you're job description is to accomplish X, Y, and Z at your job and you are refusing to do X because YOU claim it's against your religious beliefs."
Fuck that lady. >

Wouldn't this be the opposite then?  Shouldn't she be prosecuted for enforcing her religion on others?  By denying someone a legitimate prescription because what they need is against her own beliefs, she is in turn saying "Fuck your beliefs, mine are better than yours and you must respect and follow mine" >

She's not even saying "Fuck your BELIEFS" she's saying "fuck your HEALTHCARE, my religion is more important than your life"
Others have said, it's not a crime, but it damn well should be >

From the article:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...states employers cannot “avoid accommodating a religious practice that it could accommodate without undue hardship"

Only having one pharmacist on duty, and calling in another one just to do a single prescription is definitely undue hardship, not to mention forcing customers to drive to another CVS because homegirl feels the need to force her beliefs on everyone else.
Hope she gets destroyed in court. >

If you can’t do your job because of your religious beliefs you shouldn’t be doing the job. 
Imagine a Jehovas Witness Phlebotomist who just refuses to draw blood. Or a Muslim cashier who refuses to sell pork. 
These are choices that people make which make them unable to fulfil the duties of the job. If your religion doesn’t permit you to prescribe legal and necessary medications, find another job. >

pretty sure the Muslim cashier one has been in the news a couple times over the past decade. >

Yep, Costco got sued, not because they fired the cashier but because they moved him to shopping cart duty. They guy lost though because they didn't reduce his pay or hours. >

That's almost a textbook case of religious accommodation. And the guy still sues! >

Actual real life lawyer here. Unfortunately that's the problem with the legal landscape and the overly litigious nature of this country. I wouldn't be shocked if it was the guy's intention the entire time, get the job then request religious exemptions, only to then sue and hope the company just settles instead of actually fighting it. 
There are too many cases where businesses just bend over backwards to accommodate people or try to avoid any amount of bad press or expense in fighting a frivolous complaint they just settle them out even if they would easily win the case on the merits. The overly cautious nature of companies is only empowering these jackasses to do this stuff. >

Pretty sure there is a King of the Hill episode where Dale deliberately tries to this same thing but with a Hooters and gender discrimination. >

Hooters has gotten around discrimination lawsuits in the past because they are hiring "entertainers" and not general restaurant wait staff. When hiring an "entertainer" you are somewhat allowed to use discriminatory hiring practices. >

Does that mean they aren't allowed to pay their wages based on estimated tips, like they would for a server? >

Either way, Hooters girls make pretty great money. Girl in my dorm waited tables there to pay for college and she hated it but it was really good money so she dealt with it. 
Nicest girl ever. Always felt kinda bad for her; cant imagine that's a very fun job >

My dad would tip the hooters waitress like $20-$50 each time >

If I were a patient and a CVS nurse refused to give me birth control, I would sue CVS >

Theyre going to lose if it's one of the ones I'm thinking of.
They're supposed to just say "I'll get someone else to help you"
But what a lot of them was doing was saying "CVS won't/can't fill that, you need to leave".
Two very, very different things. >

“I can’t do that, it’s against my religion” vs “You can’t do that, it’s against my religion”.  Pretty cut and dry. >

Which is exactly what's wrong with religious fanatics. Narcissistic and delusional. >

And that is one reason why younger generations are turning away from religion more and more. >

Except those that seem to have it seem to be more zealous. My wife has several young nurses that came out of the woodwork as anti-vax/allTheDamnThings since covid started. 
I, unfortunately, don't think this is a problem that will ever go away, we'll just see face-lifts. >

A nurse that refuses to give vaccinations should be fired.  
Period >

They gave vaccines, and even got the required ones. But when the covid one became mandatory they started to screech anti-vax. 
I honestly can't just give this summary since it hurts my brain to think that someone can go into that field and claim to be anti-vax. >

I remember reading the case about a Marine that was discharged for refusing the vaccine because of its use of fetal tissue. She didn’t really have an answer when asked why she got the MMR vaccine that used the same tissue sample. >

Many many years ago I was an apprentice plumber and it was a legal requirement for my apprenticeship to get a bunch of vaccines to protect against diseases. hep a hep b MMR, typhoid ( that ones a cunt of a shot ) rabies ( not that we have rabies in my country anymore ) and a couple others, I didn't like it, but after talking to a lot of the old master plumbers and hearing horror stories of the shit they had contracted in their careers I took my vaccines and the typhoid and hep ones have certainly paid off over the years when I've been exposed to that shit.
Like a lot of people I don't like getting shots, but I'd rather the shot than a dose of a preventable disease. >

Any religion you follow that requires other people to obey the rules you chose?
Is fucking insane. >

Isn’t that like…. Most of them >

Weird, my religion requires an hour break for every 5 minutes worked. >

Which religion? I’m suddenly feeling it is time to connect with my spiritual self >

Meow-rmon
(That's the best cat pun religion I can come up with.) >

Tell me more man! >

We spend 5 minutes working, then take an hour nap.
We set alarm for our daily 3:30 AM prayer, which is really just loud, incoherent screaming.
And if anyone touches your belly, you must scratch the shit out of the aggressor. >

Wait, can I convert? What’s the process like? Nvm, I swear undying love to our feline lords and saviors!! >

If you're not going to do the job then don'twork there. CVS is pretty blatant with what they prescribe; that NP knew it going in and she still took the job. This is on her. >

Unless she took the job specifically to start a fight. >

Step 1: Take job that you know will violate your "religious beliefs"
Step 2: Refuse to do job and get fired
Step 3: Sue job for wrongful termination 
Step 4: Profit! >

My friend had a sales rep at his last company that did something similar. He was an alcoholic. Basically, he would be piss drunk by 12 everyday and show up for calls with customers hammered. He would get warnings within a few months, then laid off, then sue for wrongful termination because he has a "disease". I'm by no means shaming a legitimate condition, but the dude wasn't trying to get help and had done this 5+ times in 10 years. >

We had an employee who did this kind of thing also. He was hearing impaired, so my boss said, hey let’s give him a chance. He used hearing aids and could hear ok so no problem. Except, he would only choose to hear what he wanted and ignore when he was told what to do at the job. Most of the time he didn’t do anything and when asked why, he’d say- “Oh you never told me that, or I didn’t hear you”. This went on until he was fired for not doing any of the job. He quickly sued after. Later we found out he’d done this same pattern to all his previous jobs. >

I've asked Christians who support this how they'd feel about a vegan getting a job in a restaurant or supermarket and then refusing to sell meat, and framing it in religious terms.  Or a Hindu, with beef specifically.   I've found that they don't support this freedom of conscience or religion in a general sense, just with those things that are hobby-horses of conservative Christians specifically. >

“They shouldn’t take that job, then.”
“So, like the lady in the pharmacy?”
“No, that’s different! She’s trying to help people!” >

Personally, they should have to prove it even violates their religious beliefs. Birth control is used for a lot of women to avoid getting cancer because they don’t have regular periods. The Bible is both for and against almost everything and has been mistranslated constantly from its original text.
There is no mention of modern birth control in the Bible. In fact, I think the most commonly referred to pieces of evidence people use to say it opposes birth control are in Genesis. So… we are following the Old Testament rules? 
The whole thing is nonsensical. >

They should state which Bible verse is against birth control since birth control pills is never mentioned in Bible . You know, Supreme Court style. “The word Privacy is no mentioned in constitutions so it is not protected.” Well. “birth control pill is not mentioned in Bible so it is not included in the religion protection.” >

Abortion is mentioned in the Bible. It is prescribed to a woman who is possibly unfaithful to her husband. The suspicious husband is to take his wife to a rabbi where the rabbi will give her a bitter drink. If the bitter drink causes her belly to swell and womb to rot, she was unfaithful. If it does not, she was faithful. Basically the rabbi gives her an abortifacient and if she is carrying a fetus, the bitter drink causes her to abort it.

Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

Numbers 5:19-22 >

LMAO how dare you use their own sacred scriptures to prove to them they don't understand their own religion! >

I do love how many try to say it totally is not about abortion. Some interpretations say they meant thigh rather than womb. A rotting thigh generally is not associated with a swelling belly and infertility. Most likely it was something like loin since ancient Israelites probably were not great at anatomy. I have also seen people say it defended women against jealous husbands and rarely ever correlated with a woman becoming infertile. Except if she does not drink the water, they fucking stone her to death. The bible generally is not very big on women's rights either. >

It's only a mistranslation when they don't agree with it. Otherwise the Word of God as written in infallible. >

I never understand what peoples' religious beliefs have to do with other people. Like, you don't believe in birth control, good for you; but other people do. It's not like you're taking the medication so what's it to you if someone else wants it? >

This is the exact reason why so many Christians I know have this fear of atheists.  They assume that because they are very forceful about shoving their beliefs on others that atheists are going to try to force atheism on them in the same way.
Which from my experience as an atheist and most atheists I know, we don't care what you believe in as long as you don't try to push it on us. >

Also the fact that they believe Atheists have no moral compass without God. “What’s to stop you from committing murder or rape without religion to tell you not to?” Idk I just think those are fucked up things to do. Don’t need a sky daddy to tell me so >

Yeah, when I first talked to my mom about being atheist in high school, she didn't believe I actually was at first because she knew I was a moral person.  
Thankfully, my mom is pretty open minded and understanding for a religious person.
I just described to her that fear of punishment from an unseen being isn't required, simply treating other people how I wanted to be treated is a pretty effective moral compass to start from. She did agreed but until it was brought up, she hasn't thought of it that way, it seems.