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Religious Discrimination: Right To or Protection From?

Started by Shana A, December 09, 2011, 09:18:36 AM

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Shana A

December 09, 2011, 09:18:36 AM
Erica Keppler
LGBT activist and software engineer working in the aeronautics industry

Religious Discrimination: Right To or Protection From?
Posted: 12/ 9/11 01:38 AM ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-keppler/religious-discrimination-macys-transgender-woman_b_1137472.html

In a recent incident of open, hostile, aggressive discrimination against a transgender woman, a store clerk in a Texas Macy's attempted to bar a trans woman from entering a women's fitting room, claiming it was a violation of her Christian religion to allow the trans woman to do that (no specific scripture was cited). Macy's subsequently fired the clerk.

The store clerk, Natalie Johnson, is claiming a religious right to discriminate and suing Macy's for religious discrimination. She is not claiming a right to discriminate against trans people just because they are transgender. No, she is making a very specific point of wrapping her prejudice in religion. Fine. Let's take her position at face value and look at it.
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