If A Christian Couple Can Be Fined For Refusing To Sell Something They Believe Is Against Their Religion Then Why No Action Against This Person?

[youngmafbog]

OK, so IMHO religion is the root of most evil but lets forget that bit because what I am trying to understand is why there seems to be one rule for one and another for a certain other religion we all have to bend ovcer backwards to accommodate?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4070144/Muslim-Tesco-cashier-refuses-sell-bottle-wine-shopper-against-religion.html

[Mamyalynne]

What always puzzles me with things like this is - I had a slightly irritating experience at the supermarket, but got my goods. Went home and.....decided to contact the press?

What exciting lives some lead.

[mikey4444]

Andy...this is the usual DM rant....and YMBs second of today !

Has anybody ever seen YMB and AOG in the same room together, at the same time ?

Its getting very spooky !

[youngmafbog]

// inviting people to have an anti-Muslim rant//

So why did I point out most Muslims I know who run business are happy to serve it?

What I was getting at is why does one religious fanatic get roasted (many christian bakers would have just got on and peddled the cake) and another doesn't.

I think Andy in the last two sentences of his post has pointed out why.

[Baldric]

\\In this instance, and employee who does not normally work on a section selling alcohol was placed on a checkout where serving wine was required.\\

//But it doesn't actually say that, if it's read correctly, it says

The store confirmed the member of staff worked on a kiosk where alcohol is 'generally not purchased' and would request another colleague's help if the situation arose again in the future//.

"In other words if someone came to her usual workstation with Alcohol."

Sounds like Tesco had her employed in a reasonably Alcohol free area already.

[Togo]

//The customer has the same recourse in law should he wish to pursue the issue.//

How true, let's hope the shopper considers himself to be part of some sort of "minority community" and has the backing of a pressure group who will gleefully take up and fund a prosecution, just for the mischief, then. .

[jno]

Mamya, I have the phone number of the Daily Mail newsdesk constantly to hand. The number of Tesco assistants I have reported to them for imperfect behaviour, you just wouldn't believe.

[mikey4444]

Mamy...some people lead very boring lives, and after all, the DM has to find something to fill its pages with !

What better than an anti-Muslim rant ?

[youngmafbog]

//Went home and.....decided to contact the press? //

I suspect wnet home and posted on a tool of the Devil would be more like it. The DM and other papers probably trawl looking for 'appropriate' page fillers.

[youngmafbog]

//What better than an anti-Muslim rant ? //

A comedy story on the latest labour troubles perhaps?

[Mamyalynne]

//A tool of the Devil// - like t'internet forum like you are?

[naomi24]

Mikey, although it suits you to deem it an anti-Muslim rant, it isn't. It's a point of principle.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - //The DM and other papers probably trawl looking for 'appropriate' page fillers. //

Of course - any paper is going to pounce on a story that chimes with the mind-set of its readership, and some chippy foreign gel getting uppity is right up their street!

[youngmafbog]

A tool of the Devil is TwitFace as I'm sure you must know as I have used the term on her many times.

[mikey4444]

YMB....(13:03)....its been pointed out by people on here that your analogy between the NI Bakers and this incident is non-existent.

Why don't you read what they have to say and if you don't understand, ask for clarification ?

[Togo]

I have shopped in our local Tesco and gone to the cigarette kiosk with a bottle of wine to purchase a lottery ticket or cigarettes and been served with no problem. The POS terminals and bar scanners will take any item on sale in Tesco and process them without a hitch.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - //What I was getting at is why does one religious fanatic get roasted (many christian bakers would have just got on and peddled the cake) and another doesn't. //

Very simple. The first instance involved breaking the laws governing prejudice, and the second instance did not break the law at all.

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
But they are religious grounds, based on a known system of religious values and edicts.


Or as I see it ... based on ***.


andy-hughes
That is not the same as wanting not to serve cigarettes because you don't like smoking - if that was discussed at the interview, the store would reasonably withhold a job offer, and the situation would not arise.


Can a store reasonable tell someone' we are withholding the job offer because you are a religious nutter who won't do the job we require you to' ?

[mikey4444]

YMB....(13:06)..... I always know when people like you are running out of anything useful to say, on a post that they have raised, and that is when you attempt to change the subject and talk about the Labour Party !

[Togo]

Has this only been reported by the Mail, or have other press publications featured it?

[jno]

it's in the Sun and the Evening Standard.