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Joe Amon, Denver Post file
Workers trim beef at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan. Colorado’s labor department has ruled that more than 100 Muslim workers fired from the meatpacking plant are eligible for unemployment benefits because a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.Re: Aug. 4 news story.
Amazing! Your article reports that the Muslim employees who were fired by Cargill because of their religion’s prayer requirements can receive unemployment benefits costing the state’s unemployment fund nearly $1 million. The ruling was made “because a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.” Yet our courts have forced a Lakewood baker to choose between his Christian religion and losing his business because he refused to bake a same-sex wedding cake. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy?
LaDene Haze,Westminster
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