In Photo ID Case, Security Concerns Win Out Over Religious Beliefs

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Wed Aug-19-09 10:22 PM
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In Photo ID Case, Security Concerns Win Out Over Religious Beliefs

In a case that pitted religious beliefs about photographs against the ramped up security concerns following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a federal judge has ruled that an oil refinery had no duty to accommodate a worker who refused on religious grounds to pose for a photo ID.

In her 22-page opinion in Cherry v. Sunoco Inc., U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that a 2002 federal law specifically mandated that all workers in port facilities carry photo ID, and that Sunoco had no power to waive that requirement.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433191229&In_Photo_ID_Case_Security_Concerns_Win_Out_Over_Religious_Beliefs

Rufe, Cynthia M. Nominated by George W. Bush on January 23, 2002.
http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj

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Motown_Johnny

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Wed Aug-19-09 10:26 PM
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1. Well, if it was a pharmacist who didn't want to sell morning after pill because of religion.....

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NYC_SKP

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Wed Aug-19-09 10:29 PM
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3. She might lose her job unless she owned the pharmacy.

Or he.

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Motown_Johnny

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:24 AM
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6. agreed, maybe I did not make myself clear. I thought we had already decided this issue

and it is simply being applied to a new situation

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NYC_SKP

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Wed Aug-19-09 10:28 PM
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2. I think it's a good call by the Bush appointed judge.

I'll admit I don't know jack about the Church of the True and Living God, but this isn't the only instance in which one's religious beliefs and the requirements of the occupation do not coordinate well.

" According to court papers, Cherry is a Black Israelite and a member of the Church of the True and Living God who believes that the Second Commandment prohibits him from posing for pictures or photographs and from carrying the same upon his person."

:shrug:

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msongs

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Wed Aug-19-09 10:36 PM
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4. ppl have the right to not apply for the job if they dont likes its job description nt

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paulsby

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:30 AM
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5. it's a sound decision

much like those states that have refused to issue driver's licenses to women whose religion forbids them from unveiling.

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