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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:41 again.

I worked for a nice muslim man for a few years.  Can you imagine how apalling it would have been if he asked me to bow down and pray to Mecca, ever?  And how politically awful it would have been for me to have to refuse???  Do conservatives really want workplaces where a boss feels it's OK to do that?  OH, I remember - you want the only prayer in the workplace to be Christian prayer since America, after all, was founded as a Christian theocracy  :roll:

Also, I AM a wiccan.  I am also a senior level employee where I work.  Do you think it would be OK for me to have a staff meeting and invoke the four directions, cast a circle, light some incense, and ask my staff to go along?  Clearly, NOT OK. [b] To me being asked to participate in a Christian prayer is just as weird, with (some sects) mock eating of blood and flesh and a tortured man on a stake held out for worship, even before your youngest children.  To my mind, sick and twisted.  No Wiccan I know is into that weird shit.
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People in positions where they have power over others in the workplace should not be allowed - subtly or explicitly - to ask you to pray their way (or at all) because it creates a very strong potential for discrimination.  Even if you can't prove it, it's still there.  It would be like your boss soliciting for donations to the Republican - or Democratic - party.  How would you feel if asked to contribute to a party you revile, but know that  you would have to out yourself politically with your boss?  Leaving you with a choice to give money to say, Obama - or stick by your principles and possible have your career suffer for it?

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OP's problems aside -- you're in HR, and you're this intolerant of somebody else's beliefs? I'm flabergasted.[/quote]  Not intolerant at all.  I respect their right to believe what they want.  To me it's weird and bizarre.  But I'm cool with it, as long as they don't force it on me.[/quote]

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