From: Volokh, Eugene
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 11:32 AM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: RE: Israeli Postal Workers Object to Delivering New Testaments
There are, it seems to me, two significant differences between
the postal worker refusal and the taxi driver refusal:
(1) A postal worker is a government employee who is refusing
to do what he is being paid to do. The taxi driver is a private individual,
and while he may have a government-provided partial monopoly (as do lawyers,
doctors, and others), he is still deciding what to do on his own private time
and within his own private car.
(2) It shouldn’t be hard to set up a system by which cab
drivers who want an exemption from the carry-everyone rule on this point must
make their preferences clear, for instance with a prominently visible logo, or
a statement from the dispatcher when they’re ordered by phone. Such a system
should minimize any surprising delays for passengers, while letting taxi
drivers engage in their profession without violating their religious
principles. It may be harder to have any such system with postal workers, if
they have fixed routes; even if some postal workers don’t object to delivering
the Bibles, setting up extra visits from those non-objecting postal workers to
fill the delivery gaps created by the objecting workers might be much more
burdensome.
Eugene
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Marci Hamilton
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:43 AM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Cc: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: Israeli Postal Workers Object to Delivering New Testaments
This is also related to Islamic taxi drivers that refuse to
transport passengers who have bottles of
alcohol, eg, cases of wine from their travels
On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Rick Duncan
<nebraskalawp...@yahoo.com<mailto:nebraskalawp...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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