Minnesota installing foot-washing facilities for Muslims?

[Whacker]

Maybe, but those ball washing machines hurt.

Golf is never going to be the same again for me.

As to the topic, I have mixed views. If it is a completely private college that receives no public funding whatsoever, then I could care less if they do this. If it's a public university or college, then I'm squarely against it. As someone pointed out, there's a difference between embracing other cultures, and then bending over backwards/crawling for them. Do this for one, and you'll have every single other one raising an uproar about discrimination and lack of preferential treatment, anyone who says this won't happen clearly has never been attended college.

Edit - Offtopic possibly.

Martok, about the taxi drivers, I believe we're going to see some real focus on squashing that and some other aspects in the workforce that have gotten out of control, IMO. The other one that comes to mind is pharmacists, since my dad is one I hear about issues related to that quite often. It would appear that in regards to dispensing prescriptions, the law is probably going to end up looking something like as follows:

If the pharmacist objects and will not dispense the prescription, then they will not be forced to. However, they WILL be required to accommodate the customer's request through some means easily accessible to them. This would entail something like calling in a backup within half an hour or so to fill it, or locating a nearby pharmacy within some arbitrary distance that is willing to fill the prescription and honor any discounts/etc that the intended pharmacy will. In fact it's possible that the 2nd option will not even make it in, and the store/pharmacist will be required to call in a backup.

I don't object to people who wish to exercise their religious beliefs, indeed that's part of the cornerstones of what the US is about, freedom to practice your religion. What it seems like is happening, and I agree with, is that that freedom is somewhat limited when it starts to affect other people. As a pharmacist, you will be forced into certain situations you may not like. The big argument is that by aiding and abetting the filling out of a prescription for birth control or whatever, that violates their rights. Sorry, but when in a critical job that involves medicine, one's rights to their beliefs only extend so far before they negatively impact someone else. As such, one doesn't have to fill the prescription, but one MUST provide an alternative whether they like it or not. Same goes with being a taxi driver, and I'd imagine that something similar to what I stated above (provided that is what the end result will look like) is going to occur. The exception may be in terms of safety or health, say for example the driver goes to pick up someone stranded (I'm just making this up, bear with me) in the middle of nowhere, and they happen to have some kind of alcohol on their person. In this case it probably wouldn't be feasible or reasonable to expect another driver to come out and take a long time to pick up the individual, in such a case the driver would be forced to transport the person and their cargo.

Just some food for thought.

Cheers.