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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

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friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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JeffT

Let's say you walk into a small restaurant in Iowa and you sit down for dinner. They hand you a menu that is mostly vegetarian dishes but does have sirloin steak. You are a meat eater and decide you want the sirloin steak. The cooks that night are two vegans who are disgusted by your food choice. They tell the waiter that they will not prepare the steak because of morality issues. Eating steak is cruelty to animals.

The waiter tells you that the cooks refuse to cook you a steak. You are also told that if you don't like their decision you can walk out of the restaurant. You scratch your head....'' What is the difference between cooking eggs, potatoes, or my steak for these cooks?

Do you walk out, complain, write a letter to the local village about the treatment you received? Were these cooks protected from not cooking your steak that night, that was clearly was on the menu?

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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

jw
friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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Jeff T

Do Restaurants Have the Unrestricted Right to Refuse Service?

No. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicitly prohibits restaurants from refusing service to patrons on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. In addition, most courts don’t allow restaurants to refuse service to patrons based on extremely arbitrary conditions. For example, a person likely can’t be refused service due to having a lazy eye.

But Aren’t Restaurants Considered Private Property?

Yes, however they are also considered places of public accommodation. In other words, the primary purpose of a restaurant is to sell food to the general public, which necessarily requires susceptibility to equal protection laws. Therefore, a restaurant’s existence as private property does not excuse an unjustified refusal of service. This can be contrasted to a nightclub, which usually caters itself to a specific group of clientele based on age and social status.

So Are "Right to Refuse Service to Anyone" Signs in Restaurants Legal?

Yes, however they still do not give a restaurant the power to refuse service on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. These signs also do not preclude a court from finding other arbitrary refusals of service to be discriminatory. Simply put, restaurants that carry a "Right to Refuse Service" sign are subject to the same laws as restaurants without one.

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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

jw
friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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So can I walk into a vegan restaurant, order a steak and sue them when they don't serve me?

If you walked into a vegan restaurant, you would not find steak on the menu. If you walked into a steakhouse, and you plan on paying your check, there should not be one reason why they should deny you service when you walk in.

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Facing future events with courage....Will Mark compromise?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

mark was facing serious pressure at work compromising his neutrality.

he is asked to join a protest at his employment that is facing cutbacks and layoffs.

mark will not join the protest or sign the sheet.

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Mark was facing serious pressure at work compromising his neutrality. He is asked to join a protest at his employment that is facing cutbacks and layoffs. Mark will not join the protest or sign the sheet. He might be one of the first to lose his job if he doesn't sign the sheet. Mark stays neutral and loyal to Jehovah. He doesn't sign the sheet. Occording to the Elders in his congregation, he is facing future events with courage.

But according to the WTBTS, you can write and sign letters to the Russian government. It will show your support for the whole association of brotherhood.

On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses invited the worldwide brotherhood to write letters of appeal to governmental authorities at the highest level who were threatening to ban our activities throughout the Russian Federation. While it cannot be determined exactly how many of the letters reached the Russian authorities, several who wrote received formal letters of acknowledgment. Though the Russian government chose not to heed the respectful appeals and has misused its authority to attack the worship of our brothers, the campaign was a stirring display of the global unity of Jehovah’s organization. It was also successful in sending the message to our fellow worshippers in Russia that the whole association of brothers is ready to provide support.—1 Peter 2:17.

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Discontinue unproductive bible study - jw broadcasting

by Gorbatchov in

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https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.

interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.

no love for the person.. g..

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~~''Tony, Jehovah wants people to come to an accurate knowledge of truth, like it says in 1Timothy 2:4.''~~

'' ActuallyTony, the Governing Body wants you to study a book that is half-assed Bible beliefs, doctrines, and practices. Then you will need to answer all the questions in the book ....correctly, put in field service hours, attend 4 meetings per week, get baptized ( we never tell you we can disfellowship you for any silly rule we have), and shun close family members. We have noticed you're smarter than we thought. So, we will try another time when your life is in shambles and we can put more fear into your life.''

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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

jw
friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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Illinois Attorney General Sues Suburban Express For Alleged Discrimination, Harassment

By CHRISTINE HERMAN • APR 23, 2018

Suburban Express operates shuttles from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus to the Chicago suburbs and O’Hare airport. It also serves Illinois State University.
SUBURBAN EXPRESS / FACEBOOK

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has announced a lawsuit against the private bus company Suburban Express for alleged human rights violations.

Madigan’s civil rights bureau had been investigating the company for possible violations of the Illinois Human Rights Act after an email was sent to customers in December saying they would find “passengers like you. You won’t feel like you’re in China when you’re on our buses.”

She said she found years of discriminatory practices, including findings that owner Dennis Toeppin relentlessly harassed customers involved in disputes and posted personal financial information of those who negatively reviewed his company.

“This is not a one-off," Madigan said. "This is a serious history—years long—of continued, repeated violations of our civil rights laws and our consumer protection laws.”

While true, You can't, nor should you, discriminate, and refuse to sell products you carry to someone based on their skin color or sexual orientation, you can, and you should be able to refuse to sell an item because you choose not to.

Just because you are a privately-owned company, DOESN'T mean you can violate civil rights laws and consumer protection laws because the business doesn't need to answer to anyone. ''Take your business somewhere else'' solution and harassing customers is a discriminatory practice.

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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

jw
friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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Oh, here we come, again! Another person who is so religious and moral deciding who should have a ''right''get a marriage license. She refuses to issue a marriage license to gay couples(even though its legal in Kentucky) because of "God's authority.''

With her strong religious faith ( cough, cough), she forgets that she's been married four times and she should have been issued only one marriage license herself. What upstanding moral and religious code this woman has that she decides what "rights" she gets but what "rights" others get taken away. She has a right to marry 4 times without her rights to remarry taken away but somehow, she is on God's side against gay couples right to marry.

The Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to gay couples has been married four times herself.

Invoking “God’s authority,” Kim Davis denied marriage licenses to gay couples again Tuesday in direct defiance of the federal courts and vowed not to resign, even under the pressure of steep fines or jail.

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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

jw
friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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But it's his right to choose what he sells and what he doesn't.

A moral and religious pharmacist should than object to filling other types of prescriptions for many reasons. A pharmacist who opposes assisted suicide may not want to fill a morphine prescription for a patient who has a painful terminal illness and wish to end his life.

A moral and religious pharmacist should than object to filling vicodin and other painkillers, sleeping pills, erectile dysfunction pills, antidepressants, and many other drugs.

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What Are Your Rights?

by Simon in

jw
friends

rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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Simon

At what point do moral and religious views become a violation of human rights?

Does a pharmacist have a right to fill a blood pressure prescription and not a birth control prescription because they find it morally and religiously objectionable? Pharmacists are employed to dispense drugs to patients, not become a moral standard bearer. What does it matter to them if I purchase condoms, hemorrhoid cream or stool softener?

I live in the state of Illinois and see this sign taped by the pharmacy drive-thru window....Please call this # if the pharmacist refuses to fill any birth control prescription.

Pharmacists Refusing to Fill Spark National Controversy

AUGUST 11, 2015

Only 8 states (California, Illinois, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and Wisconsin) have laws explicitly prohibiting medication refusals. Six states (Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, and South Dakota) have laws that specifically allow pharmacists to refuse to provide medications for religious or moral reasons.

None of the laws in the 6 states that allow medication refusals include provisions requiring pharmacists to refer patients or transfer prescriptions to another pharmacy.

Pharmacy industry associations such as the American Pharmacists Association have issued policies stating that pharmacists should fill all valid prescriptions or transfer them to a pharmacist who can, according to the NWLC. Although these policies encourage pharmacists to check their personal beliefs at the door, the policies are not legally binding and are nothing more than recommendations.

Many major pharmacy chains also have policies in place that prohibit pharmacists from refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control, but some stores have “refuse and refer” policies. Like other retail store policies, a pharmacist’s failure to comply could result in discipline or, at worst, termination.

Birth control access advocates are urging supporters to petition their legislators and state pharmacy boards to pass laws that prohibit medication refusals. Pharmacists’ rights advocates, however, say that they should not be required to dispense drugs that they find morally or religiously objectionable.

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Another Repetitive JW Public Talk: What's the Kingdom Doing For Us Now?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

this young fool (who is probably a born-in ) is no older than 35 years of age.

i started attending meetings before he was even born.

little does he know that you and i and millions of others have listened to this same themed talk, ''what's the kingdom doing for us now,'' in 1972. .

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Very similar to time share presentations, a repeat of same old benefits to newly recruited buyers who are unaware of prior gullible individuals who paid way too much for something they could get on e bay for $1. They are successful only because there is a constant flow of uneducated buyers .

The only reason I called th young man a fool was just like Betheliesalot wonderfully worded: another newly recruited and gullible Witness who doesn't realize that this JW Public talk has been given hundreds of times throughout its 140 year period. Just like a timeshare that needs new owners (who pay too much and have a hard time selling it later on), the WTBTS need new members who recite the same talk over and over.