Most Islamic cabbies working at the airport in Minneapolis/St. Paul will not take a fare if they know that the person is carrying alcohol.
I don't think this is the same issue because doctors are performing a vital public service that requires them to be licensed to practice. Cabbies and cab companies perform a very nice optional public service, but just as a resturaunt has the right to refuse service to someone who would create a negative experience for the rest of their clients, cabbies should have the right not to carry someone they don't want for a whole host of good reasons.
If there was any regulation about this, it should be from the angle of consumer protection. If you which to exercise your right to refuse service you need to make it explicit (i.e. the signs in some resturants). SO the cabbies could put a sticker on their window saying that they don't provide services for customers carrying alcohol. In some states like Utah it may even simply be an issue of liability. There may be legitimate reasons although certainly it sounds like the Twin Cities cabbies are obviously doing it for religious reasons.
Doctors though should have no recourse for stickers or signs proclaiming their refusal to perscribe certain medications. What then could have happened to this poor woman if she lived in a society where every doctor in a 200 mile radius had such a sign on their door? What if it was a community of JW doctors who refused to give patients blood transfusions?
By the way, Admins need to tell Hoot to STFU about his gay bashing in a thread that is not related whatsoever to homosexuality.
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