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Title: Muslim flight attendant: I was suspended for not serving alcohol
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CBS
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/muslim- ... t-expressjet-airlines-alcohol/
Published: Sep 3, 2015
Author: CBS Staff
Post Date: 2015-09-06 09:37:11 by cranky
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Views: 56712
Comments: 251
A Muslim flight attendant filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming she was suspended from her job for not serving alcohol, which is against her religious beliefs, CBS Detroit station WWJ-AM reports.
Lena Masri, an attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan, said Charee Stanley followed management's directions, working out an arrangement with her coworkers to accommodate passenger requests for alcohol.
However, Masri said, ExpressJet Airlines put Stanley on administrative leave after another attendant filed "an Islamophobic complaint" that referenced Stanley's head scarf.
"We notified ExpressJet Airlines of its obligation under the law to reasonably accommodate Ms. Stanley's religious beliefs," Masri said at a news conference in Farmington Hills on Tuesday. "Instead, ExpressJet close to violate Ms. Stanely's constitutional rights, placed her on administrative leave for 12 months, after which her employment may be administratively terminated."
Masri said the arrangement Stanley had with other attendants to serve alcohol for her had been working out fine since Stanley converted to Islam about a month after becoming a flight attendant for ExpressJet.
"I don't think that I should have to choose between practicing my religion properly or earning a living," Stanley said. "I shouldn't have to choose between one or the other because they're both important."
Contacted by WWJ-AM for comment, airline spokesman Jarek Beem responded with the following statement:
"At ExpressJet, we embrace and respect the values of all of our team members. We are an equal opportunity employer with a long history of diversity in our workforce. As Ms. Stanley is an employee, we are not able to comment on her personnel matters."
The Islamic-relations council is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization with the mission "to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."
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So do the supporters of the KY county clerk who won't issue sodomy marriage licenses also support this Muslim's right to refuse serving alcohol as part of her legally prescribed job duties?
#13. To: TooConservative (#3)
So do the supporters of the KY county clerk who won't issue sodomy marriage licenses also support this Muslim's right to refuse serving alcohol as part of her legally prescribed job duties?
Your statement reeks with support for sodomites.
#14. To: A K A Stone, SOSO, sneakypete (#13)
Your statement reeks with support for sodomites.
No, it doesn't.
I'm asking if conservatives now support the "right" not to do the job an employee (or public official) agreed to do (instead of resigning from that job).
I'll point out that the KY clerk is on her fourth marriage. What if she ran across a Catholic or Church of Christ or Jehovah's Witness serving as a county clerk who don't believe in divorce. Does this much-married KY clerk think they should have the right to refuse to issue her and husband #5 a marriage certificate?
#15. To: TooConservative (#14)
What if she ran across a Catholic or Church of Christ or Jehovah's Witness serving as a county clerk who don't believe in divorce.
That's an interesting angle. According to a k a Stone she has since found religion herself recently - so she's allowed to impose her religious beliefs on others now.
That didn't work out so well for her. I predict she'll be in jail until the GoFundMe money runs out.
#23. To: Fred Mertz (#15)
That didn't work out so well for her. I predict she'll be in jail until the GoFundMe money runs out.
Well, her son is one of her deputy clerks so he has been refusing to sign sodomy marriage certificates too. Not that anyone has asked him to. The other deputy clerks are all accepting them, probably eyeing running for the big money as county clerk themselves in 2016. But you do have to wonder which of the KY clerk's serial adulteries...ahem...marriages this son was a product of, particularly considering his possible status as a bastard child of this woman's adulteries.
According to a k a Stone she has since found religion herself recently - so she's allowed to impose her religious beliefs on others now.
Wow, that is handy.
#29. To: TooConservative (#23)
...marriages this son was a product of, particularly considering his possible status as a bastard child of this woman's adulteries.
My friend educated me on her marriage journeys this past Friday while we lunched together.
Marriage #1 hubby was not the father of her twin boys - marriage #3 hubby was.
Marriage #2 hubby adopted the twin boys that weren't his.
Then she married #3 hubby, the father of the twin boys.
Now she's on hubby #4 and she has found religion.
Got it?
#78. To: Fred Mertz (#29)
My friend educated me on her marriage journeys this past Friday while we lunched together.Marriage #1 hubby was not the father of her twin boys - marriage #3 hubby was.
Marriage #2 hubby adopted the twin boys that weren't his.
Then she married #3 hubby, the father of the twin boys.
Now she's on hubby #4 and she has found religion.
Got it?
Fred,I think we are witnessing the beginning of the newest reality teebee show.
#91. To: sneakypete, Fred Mertz, nativist nationalist (#78)
Marriage #1 hubby was not the father of her twin boys - marriage #3 hubby was.Marriage #2 hubby adopted the twin boys that weren't his.
Then she married #3 hubby, the father of the twin boys.
I am curious if hubby #2, having adopted the twins, got stuck with child support for them when Kim married their birth-father (hubby #2). Since he adopted them, he would be their father legally and the birth-father's obligation would be terminated. So unless their birth-father (hubby #3) did adopt them when he finally married their mother, then hubby #2 (adoptive father) would be on the hook for child support.
Sounds like the ultimate cuckservative ripoff by hubby #3.
#136. To: TooConservative (#91)
Sounds like the ultimate cuckservative ripoff by hubby #3.
I did a bit of looking and learned that hubby #2 became hubby #4 - current hubby.
Google found this link for me:
www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/...-in-this-handy-flowchart/
#137. To: Fred Mertz (#136) (Edited)
Pulling out all the closet angels, are ya Fred?
#144. To: buckeroo (#137)
From a spiritual perspective, what happened before 2011 is irrelevant, unless she is unforgiving of other people who have sexual sins.
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#147. To: Vicomte13 (#144) (Edited)
"From a spiritual perspective, what happened before 2011 is irrelevant"
I agree. Finding God was the best thing that happened to her in her screwed up life. I'd want to hang on to my new-found spirituality, too.
#149. To: Vicomte13 (#144)
unless she is unforgiving of other people who have sexual sins.
Does her county or state or federal governments require her imposition of sexual mores? The answer is either "YES" or "NO"; if the answer is no, why is she exercising her personal perspective or religious perspective on the matter? If the the answer is "yes" ... you shouldn't be discussing these issues as you will be mocked as "clueless."
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