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Megyn Kelly Loses Her Sh*t Because Muslim Truck Drivers Won A Lawsuit About Hauling Beer (VIDEO)

A jury has awarded $240,000 to two Muslim truck drivers in a religious discrimination lawsuit, and Megyn Kelly is losing her mind. She just doesn’t seem to understand the difference between this case, and the cases of those poor, persecuted “Christian” bakers who don’t want to make cakes for same-sex weddings. This is another example of how the right takes a story with a grain of truth, and spins it beyond all recognition.

The backstory: In 2009, two Somali-American Muslim truck drivers were fired by their employer, Star Transport, for refusing to deliver alcohol. The men filed suit against Star Transport, saying that carrying alcohol was a violation of their religious beliefs. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sided with the men. Last March, the company admitted guilt, and the men were recently awarded $240,000 in back wages and damages.

This has caused the most recent meltdown on the right. Megyn Kelly was almost beside herself on the October 26 edition of her Fox News show, The Kelly File, where she talked with Fox judge Andrew Napolitano about the case.

“The Obama administration actually represented the two Muslims in this case, but has sometimes taken a very different position in the cases of Christians trying to assert their religious beliefs,” she says.

Oh Megyn, Megyn, Megyn. You are smarter than this. There are things that are hard to explain, and things that are easy to explain. This is an easy one.

First of all, in the cases of those “Christian” bakers, it wasn’t the individuals who were being sued, it was the businesses. And they were being sued by clients for refusal of service. Sure, the media framed those cases to make it appear that it was the individuals involved who were being sued, but technically it was the business.

In this case, the truck drivers were suing their employer for failing to provide accommodations for their religious beliefs. What made things worse for Star Transport is that according to The Washington Post, the company had indeed provided accommodations in other instances by allowing drivers to swap loads, and the company admitted that it could have done so in this instance as well. So this wasn’t a fight over access to business services, but a dispute between employer and employees, which is why the EEOC was involved. In the case of the bakers, the EEOC would not have jurisdiction.

Employers can get exemptions from religious liberty protections by proving that those protections would cause a hardship to the business. In this case, Star Transport could not prove that the men’s request that they not be required to deliver alcohol was an “undue burden” because they had previously provided similar accommodations for other employees.

Here is the conversation between Kelly and Napolitano about the case. Napolitano is usually one of the crazier personalities on Fox News. But this time, after throwing Kelly and viewers a bone by questioning why the drivers took the job when they knew they would be delivering alcohol (Actually they didn’t know that. See above), he explains to Kelly why the case is different than the other cases she brings up.

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  • Baby_Raptor

    Still waiting for the day someone goes to court to assert their right to refuse service to a Christian because serving bigots violates their beliefs.

    • Stef Fernald

      lmao!

  • William Lanteigne

    Retired truck driver. I’ve known all kinds of drivers who have had problems with certain kinds of loads; the one I’m this reminds me of the most is the vegetarian driver who refused to haul a load of meat. They found him another load, and another driver willing to haul meat.
    There are a lot of religious truck drivers out there, mostly Christian, and it’s not unusual for companies to accommodate their drivers’ beliefs. This is not a new subject, and it’s only coincidentally associated with Islam.
    I have a suspicion this was done by an overzealous new manager trying to make a name for themselves at the company.

  • Stef Fernald

    national news doesn’t seem to fit ms kelly. maybe she should get a job with some fox news affiliate in alabama, where liquor stores outnumber the places where one can get voter id. seems like a perfect fit.

  • Lauri

    No. It’s not the same. They worked for a trucking company that hauled many things. Kim Davis worked in a government office for which she took an oath to uphold the law. Huge difference.

  • yborjoe

    Kim Davis’s case is very different. Plus, as the County Clerk Kim is very well aware of the accommodation options and the first one that a judge offered to her she denied. So, she was trying to use the “power of her office’ to make a statement. And like the article says above, the company where the Muslim men worked had switched loads in the past, so that means they should have offered to switch the load for these guys. I don’t even see how this is a story at all.

  • LarryEWells

    How can there be any doubt when the company ADMITTED FAULT? They admitted they had switched loads before to accmadate others but refused these men.

  • Elie Challita

    Mostly the difference between this case and Kim Davis’ is that these two didn’t try and prevent every other driver from delivering the beer, whereas Davis basically shut down her entire county clerk office to prevent anyone from getting marriage licenses.

    • JP

      Good point. I used to work on the dispatch and services side of a trucking company, truck drivers are often encouraged not to turn down loads unless they have serious convictions not to, there are a lot of religious truck drivers of varying practices, but, it could be just as easily noted in a person’s driver profile what types of loads a person can carry. The dispatch made this a much bigger deal than this had to be because they wanted to lay burden on the drivers. Also, there are probably a lot more Muslims in driving than the average person would expect, there are lots of foreigners in driving because it’s a job that doesn’t require much learning the language and Islam is much more popular in many other countries.

      • Elie Challita

        Oh I know, I’m a Middle Eastern immigrant myself. I was lucky enough to get a solid education and get proficient in English before coming here, but for a lot of people, especially those who had to leave in a hurry, the only options are manual labor or this type of job.

        I’m not really in support of religious exemptions for anything, honestly. If your job requires you to do something, you should be able to do it, but I understand that companies should make accommodations when possible. That can be taken a bit too far sometimes, like systematically refusing to give Saturdays off to some employees while granting it to practicing Jews, but there’s definitely a balance to be struck.

        Bottom line is, does that exemption negatively impact the company’s business, and does it result in unfair treatment?

        Notice that I keep referring to companies because I don’t think that the same applies to public servants: If your religious convictions prevent you from doing the job your were elected to do, or through which you are providing civil service, then you shouldn’t hold that job.

  • Mike Morrissey

    Religious freedom, right?

    • DJD11

      Unless that religion is Islam.