The Workplace Religious Freedom Act amends title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodation in employment, and for other purposes.
The ACLU says: "Over the past 25 years, employees have brought an array of claims for employers to accommodate religious practices that would have resulted in harm to critical personal or civil rights. If WRFA had been law, the following rejected religious accommodation claims could have been decided differently: police officer's request to refuse to protect an abortion clinic; another police officer’s request to abstain from arresting protestors blocking a clinic entrance; social worker’s decision to use Bible readings, prayer, and the 'casting out of demons' with inmates in a county prison, instead of providing the county's required secular mental health counseling [...]."
The American Humanist Association says: "The bill also seriously jeopardizes the wellbeing of American citizens. The broad language of the bill compromises health and safety by allowing healthcare workers to refuse to provide information and services related to family planning and HIV/AIDS treatment. Under the bill, police officers could also refuse to protect buildings if they had a moral objection to the tenant's activities - putting people like abortion clinic workers at risk."
Trevor Blake says: If this bill becomes law, then religious employees will have rights and privilages that no atheist employee can have. Want to get off work for Special Super Magic Ghost Day? Go for it! Want to get off work for Robert Ingersoll's birthday? Too bad, infidel.
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