Metro Transit changes mind on driver, gay-themed ads
"Metro Transit said Friday that it inadvertently sent the wrong message about tolerance in trying to accommodate a bus driver's religious objections to driving buses that carried gay-themed ads.
Metro Transit spokesman Bob Gibbons said the company made a temporary accommodation to the driver on Oct. 12, allowing her not drive buses that carried an ad for Lavender, a local magazine aimed at the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community.
The ad showed the face of a young man with the slogan, "Unleash Your Inner Gay." Fifty buses carried it periodically.
The ad contract ran only through Oct. 18, Gibbons said, and buses no longer are carrying the ads.However, in reviewing the issue, Gibbons said the company likely would not make the same decision again."We are not persuaded that advertising, per se, infringes on religious practices and would be reluctant to make similar accommodations in the future," Gibbons said."
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10 months ago
2 comments:
'Bout time they came around.
Hopefully they got enough of a loud backlash to the original decision.
What if she objects to a particular political candidate? How about Planned Parenthood? Or another church or religion? Where does it end?
I'm glad that Metro re-thought this.
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