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"This will be short. It will not be sweet.
Edwin A. Graning worked as a bus driver for the Capital Area Rural Transportation System in Texas. On January 29, 2010, he was assigned to give a woman a ride to a location in Austin. He refused. He was fired.
And now he's suing. You see, Mr. Graning believes he was fired because of his religious beliefs. He believes he is the victim of discrimination. He wants his job back. He wants back pay. And he wants money for his “pain, suffering, and emotional distress.”
Why did he refuse to do his job?
Because the woman he was supposed to drive wanted to go to Planned Parenthood. And Mr. Graning believed that she was going to get an abortion. It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that she might have been going for a pap test or breast exam, that it was, in fact, unlikely that she was seeking an abortion because despite the constant smears from the forced birth movement, abortion is only 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides.
It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that abortion is a legal medical procedure, and that the woman whom he refused to drive, even had she been going for an abortion, was merely exercising her legal rights.
It didn't matter to Mr. Graning because despite his lawsuit, he doesn't give a damn about legal rights.
Mr. Graning believes it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate against women, to deprive them of their rights, to deny them access to legal medical procedures to which they are entitled -- all under the guise of "religious beliefs."
We have seen this before. Pharmacists around the country refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control because of their "religious beliefs." And five states actually protect their "right" to deprive women of their rights.
We have seen this with the homophobic bigots who complain about violations of their free speech rights to spew hatred and pass homophobic legislation."
More at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/25/887220/-A-story-of-discrimination
Edwin A. Graning worked as a bus driver for the Capital Area Rural Transportation System in Texas. On January 29, 2010, he was assigned to give a woman a ride to a location in Austin. He refused. He was fired.
And now he's suing. You see, Mr. Graning believes he was fired because of his religious beliefs. He believes he is the victim of discrimination. He wants his job back. He wants back pay. And he wants money for his “pain, suffering, and emotional distress.”
Why did he refuse to do his job?
Because the woman he was supposed to drive wanted to go to Planned Parenthood. And Mr. Graning believed that she was going to get an abortion. It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that she might have been going for a pap test or breast exam, that it was, in fact, unlikely that she was seeking an abortion because despite the constant smears from the forced birth movement, abortion is only 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides.
It didn't matter to Mr. Graning that abortion is a legal medical procedure, and that the woman whom he refused to drive, even had she been going for an abortion, was merely exercising her legal rights.
It didn't matter to Mr. Graning because despite his lawsuit, he doesn't give a damn about legal rights.
Mr. Graning believes it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate against women, to deprive them of their rights, to deny them access to legal medical procedures to which they are entitled -- all under the guise of "religious beliefs."
We have seen this before. Pharmacists around the country refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control because of their "religious beliefs." And five states actually protect their "right" to deprive women of their rights.
We have seen this with the homophobic bigots who complain about violations of their free speech rights to spew hatred and pass homophobic legislation."
More at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/25/887220/-A-story-of-discrimination
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