I was at a client office today and he was leading a prayer of his office staff. Bombs away!
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Your Employer forces praying…that ok?
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Forced implies you can't walk away from, or decline to participate in the prayer and/or may be fired for not joining in. I'm almost certain, unless it is a religious organization, that had you tried a or b, you probably could have just gone about your day instead of participate. I had a boss once who was super religious, who used to send out scripture every morning to us in texts. This did not bother my co-staffers because one had a father who was a pastor in a church and the other was religious. I confronted him about how I considered this inappropriate considering this was my personal cell phone and not work related at all, and he stopped. So ask, before you assume.
Is it part of the job description and they get paid for it? As it is often pointed out, freedom of religion is from the government not private citizens or employers.
It was more than likely a employer led one, how do you know it was forced and not voluntarily for those who wanted to join in?
This picture and this post is epic comedy material, for Comedy Central.
I can already imagone an employer holding all company staff as hostage, and demanding the cops to send in a priest to pray for them, while cops can give in to any demand of any kind.
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I guess I don’t know what would constitute “forced”. It’s certainly dangerous. If someone was fired they could say it was because of they didn’t pray on demand.
I would think that if it is a condition of employment or promotion then it was forced. As long as a firing has a "cause" then I don't think others should be denied the freedom to pray as they wish.
I’m sure if staff doesn’t want to be involved, they don’t include them. So you just basically assumed they were forced without any context or support that they were indeed forced
@OddBeMe that is all based on assumption. Religion is a free choice. If that’s the case, there is such thing as court for a reason if someone feels discriminated against
How do you know they were forced to pray? Maybe he offers it as an option, but they're not negatively impacted if they choose not to pray? It's wrong if there's any form of coercion. Otherwise, I don't see a problem with it, especially if it's a religiously owned establishment, and they were aware of this behavior beforehand.
If that’s the case, it’s completely wrong and shouldn’t happen. However, you don’t know anything about this situation. It’s possible they entered the job with the understanding this type of thing would occur. Negatively impacted means any form of coercion or pressure to participate.
No that's wrong. Employers (and no one else) should be forcing their religious beliefs on people. A workplace is a professional environment, not a place of worship. However, volunteering is fine. Making it a requirement is unacceptable.
Depends, are they a religious organization? Also, if the entire staff shares the religion, then it's fine. Other than that, it would probably be a direct contrast to our constitutional freedom of religion.
It’s fine we do live in a Christian society, If you don’t want to join in just act like your joining in. Remember you live in Texas which is a pretty religious state
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that's not bad. it's straight up illegal on a human rights level. religious freedom is a human right. nobody is allowed to take that away from you by making you express their religious prefrence.
That isn't ok. My former supervisor tried to do that two years ago, and only one person participated, the rest called the main office to complain. They said he had to be more inclusive, he refused and just stopped doing it altogether.
Actually legally he didn't have to be more inclusive. He can legally pray at work as long as he didn't literally force others to do it or threaten their jobs if they didn't pray.
@BeeNee He did try to force it, that is why almost everyone complained. But it's company policy that it is ok to do prayer meetings and such, long as other religions have the opportunity to do so as well.
