Charlie -I’m surprised at you. You usually post with common sense, even though you’re a lib, now you are joining the ranks of people like SJS. To wipe off all these Chazals because it’s written in Agaddita, is not like you. If you would have read page 2, you would see it’s also a medrash in the Torah. Are you now claiming that you don’t have to take midrashim l’halacha, just like Aggaddita??!! Do you have any proof to this?
As far as the TWA case, I don’t understand why you are trying to distort it -just to push your liberal agenda? It doesn’t matter whether you and I agree with the dissent, that’s not the law. The law is with the majority. Even acc. to the majority, you have to try to accommodate religion.
” A major reason for the majority was that other employees would be required to work on Shabat”
They held you have to try to accommodate, but not to force it on others. This makes sense to me. In my case, they never tried. They could have asked their employees if one of them wanted to swap shifts or one of the other accommodations listed by case law. They never did. What they did was just say no, we won’t hire you. Later on they defended themselves in court saying undue hardship. So, acc. to this case (TWA) from the Supreme Court, my potential employers engaged in illegal discrimination. Why the Federal Judge ruled against me -I can only speculate. I listed three possible reasons above, maybe there are more!
Also, stop blaming conservatism on the rulings against me, Rubashkin, & Pollard. This has nothing to do with it. You could be a conservative and do bad things. There are people who on the outside look like the most frum yidden and do heinous acts. Being a Conservative (if they are) never forced these Judges to deny justice and equality to all!