Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Further thought Date:   9/17/2015 8:14:16 AM

After reading the responses, I thought some more about this. 

Since when did your personal beliefs interfere with doing the job you are being paid to do?   Do we now need to question the personal beliefs of everyone we come in contact with?  Does the cashier in the supermarket need to know my views on abortion before she can check out my groceries?  When the Charter guy comes out to fix my cable service, will he decide not to do his job because the person who called for help is gay?  If I go into a florist to buy flowers, will the clerk need to know if I am buying them for my gay lover or refuse to sell me the flowers because the florist is gay and I am straight?

It seems to me that all this talk about not serving others because of personal beliefs, not doing my job becasue it violates my personal beliefs is just more of the "it's all about me" that is so pervasive in our culture now.  We now impose our personal beliefs on others and require our employers to make extreme accomodations in the workplace, because we can't get over ourselves. 

In my view, your personal beliefs is how you live your life.  You don't approve of a gay lifestyle?  Then you don't live it.  You don't beleive in drinking alcohol?  Don't drink it.   Don't take a job where you will have to violate your hard held principles.  You don't want to wait on police, military, blacks, whites, zombie aliens - then don't take the job at the window - be the guy flipping burgers on the line.  It used to be when you took a job, you were expected to conform to the organization; not twist the organization so that it conforms to you.  Some of the most devout Christians I know, do not judge others.  They go about their lives, do their jobs and live their lives according to their beliefs, without imposing their beliefs on others. 

Guess I'm just tired of the "it's all about me".