Even if it runs counter to their personal beliefs?
2007-02-16 05:37:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Should government employees have to perform cross race, or religion marriages if it's against their personal beliefs? Suppose the employee was gay and found same sex marriages distasteful?
The government is not for a some of the people or the people who believe the same or even most of the people, it is for ALL the people, and all civil servants need to remember that. Actually we all need to remember it as well.
2007-02-16 05:48:10 · answer #1 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a civil union is a legal binding of two peoples of the same sex similar to that of a marriage between a man and a woman. If they preform civil marriage ceremonies, but do not preform civil union ceremonies, they are discriminating against homosexuals. There is no other way to put it, it is flat out discrimination if a homosexual couple is denied the same rights as a heterosexual.
2007-02-16 05:42:27 · answer #2 · answered by Vantado 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Government employees have to do things all the time which may run counter to their personal belief system--child welfare workers who don't believe in mixed-race adoption placing a child with different-race parents, for example. While working for the governement, it is the civil worker's job to enforce the rules of that government.
2007-02-16 05:43:26 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a moral objection to our government being run by Bush and his bunch of crooks, liars and warmongers, but I still pay my taxes.
And, my family and I get less in return for it than a straight person/household does.
I can't help but notice that the civil servant who refuses to marry gay people and the pharmacist who refuses to fill prescriptions for contraceptives, both on moral grounds, but follow all the other laws of the land, are of the same camp as the religious right, most of whom pick and choose certain parts of the Bible to shout about, and ignore parts that they don't care for.
The name of that camp? Camp Hypocrite.
2007-02-16 05:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If you don't agree with it why are you still working there? If same-sex civil unions are legal in your town and you don't agree with the policies set forth, then you are out of touch with the system that does. Why work for a system or, administration, you don't agree with?
2007-02-16 05:45:47 · answer #5 · answered by Uninvisible 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and if they don’t want to do it they should get another job. We all have religious beliefs and our own morals. I could say I don’t want to work in my local supermarket because I’m vegetarian and they sell meat. A person could say they don’t want to work with a Catholic because they’re protestant and feel the Catholic religion mocks their beliefs.
2007-02-16 06:21:56 · answer #6 · answered by pissed off with abuse, goodbye! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, these are LEGAL contracts not Religious cerimonies!
Just as Government cannot employ people based on their personal religion, those employees cannot force their personal beliefs upon their employer/ment
2007-02-16 05:40:22 · answer #7 · answered by DEATH 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yes, if they cannot perform their job duties due to a CONFLICT OF INTEREST then they should be fired and replaced.
2007-02-16 06:23:18 · answer #8 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it's part of their job description...... Yes..... I don't always agree with my management and their decisions, but I don't make the rules..... If they don't agree or feel morally opposed, they can always get a different job..... Nobodies making them work there.
2007-02-16 05:42:03 · answer #9 · answered by PNSGUY 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If it contradicts their religious beliefs, I don't believe the government can make them do it... and if it is illegal in the state they are working, no they wouldnt perform them either.
2007-02-16 05:44:56 · answer #10 · answered by livinintheword † 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋