{"id":2491,"date":"2011-03-28T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2011-03-28T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:37:10","slug":"tsa-fires-wiccan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"TSA Fires Wiccan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another strike against the so-called Transportation Safety Administration’s general bureaucratic ineptitude. Add religious discrimination to their list of ugly attitudes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Judge: Let’s take the witchcraft out of it. If someone complains to you, he’s Jewish, and refers to a stereotype about his Judaism, go to mediation and work it out? Is that management’s response to that? <\/p>\n

Lloyd: No. That would not be management’s response to that. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge: OK. But witchcraft takes it into a different thing? I guess. I guess witchcraft and Judaism are different in the sense that \u2014 what? <\/p>\n

Lloyd: To be perfectly honest, sir, at the time, I wasn’t even \u2014 I didn’t know anything about witchcraft or Wiccanism. … I wasn’t even aware that Wiccanism was a recognized religion at the time. I had to research it afterwards. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another strike against the so-called Transportation Safety Administration’s general bureaucratic ineptitude. Add religious discrimination to their list of ugly attitudes. Judge: Let’s take the witchcraft out of it. If someone complains to you, he’s Jewish, and refers to a stereotype about his Judaism, go to mediation and work it out? 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