Shepard Smith: more than a liberal token

Shepard Smith of Fox News said that the "same crowd that says, "We don't want Sharia law" is the same crowd that support Kim Davis in her refusal to sign off as a Kentucky County Clerk on gay marriage licenses.

So if Smith got his way, we would have people who follow Sharia law in total, killing gay couples for its violation of Sharia law. And to do it "by the [Sharia] book," gay couples would be tossed off of high buildings, some stoned or hanged, but all would be dead in any case.

Isn't it suckworthy how Fox News is moving more and more to the left with people like Shepard Smith, Richard Fowler, Alan Colmes and Geraldo Rivera?

How disgusting is it that Shepard Smith blames the woes of America on right-wing crazies?  He even cut into his press conference that covered Davis' release from prison to verbally attack her and her supporters.  

"They set this up as a religious play again," Smith said. "This is the same crowd that says 'We don't want Sharia law,' don't let them tell us what to do, keep their religion out of our lives and out of our government.' Well, here we go again."

I don't agree that Kim Davis should be jailed for what she refused to do based upon her religious convictions, but I also see this as a very similar situation when a woman in a hijab refuses to remove it if her job requires that. There is no easy answer.

Or is there?

Perhaps job descriptions need to be amended and carefully worded to include a statement the prospective employee must agree to before being hired. 

For instance, a cab company may not want to allow women in burqas to drive because their peripheral vision is compromised in the cloth coffin they must wear. Luckily for women in burqas, they are often not allowed out of their homes without a male guardian, so driving a cab is irrelevant to them, but you see my point.

A woman who agrees to a modeling job must agree not to wear a hijab as part of the ensemble. 

A male cabbie must agree to take passengers, even if they are Jewish, or even if they are carrying alcohol in a closed bottle. An employment agreement would need to take that into consideration when hiring a Muslim.

If companies don't want to allow Muslims to pray during working hours, that needs to be stipulated, and Islam has actually made allowances for this, but will not tell us infidels.

I don't agree with Kim Davis because I see the situation from a wider perspective. I also agree that Christians are being persecuted like crazy in the USA, and mostly by people like Shepard Smith and the left. 

I believe a person with their own business has the right to refuse participating in, say, baking a wedding cake, or being a photographer in a same-sex wedding, but doesn't have the right to refuse a gay person as a regular customer. It's the ceremony that goes against the religious ideology, not the human being.

Kim Davis signing off on a same-sex marriage license should not equate with going against her beliefs anymore than signing off on a heterosexual license for a couple you think should not get married, for whatever reason you may have to believe that.

But ask yourself this: if a gay couple wanted to get married and went to a Muslim bake shop and were refused service, what would a liberal do?



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