For starters he is not discriminating, since he is making sure everyone has access to services.
He did not say they should be excluded from massage therapy he said they should be refered to a therapist that would be more appropriate than him.
If HE is refusing services to them, HE is discriminating against them. He may be compensating for and mitigating the negative effect of that discrimination via referrals, but he is still discriminating. What don't you get about that? Discrimination may be legitimate or illegitimate, but it is still discrimination. What we're working on here is whether or not this particular discrimination is legitimate or not.
If you agree with me that normal adult mature people, to greater or lesser extents get sexualized by all kinds of encounters the UPS delivery person, etc.
I've never disputed this. It can happen. There are only two things in dispute. One is the frequency, and we've already agreed we have no way to determine this. The other is the standard. The standard for Mojo's profession is no actual hanky-panky. I subscribe to the industry standard. The standard for Mojo is, apparently, no impure thought or visceral reaction. So his threshold of risk is, er, non-standard--the exception, deviant. Those last two words courtesy of Neo. <g>
(BTW, the UPS guy was here twice today and the pizza guy once. Nary a tingle, I assure you. I was much more interested in the stuff they were delivering.)
I submit that Mojo's discrimination is not legitimate because it runs counter to societal norms and standard industry practice and because it risks harm to clients who are turned away. Mojo, of course, is entitled to his alternate view of the world and to think he's smarter than his industry. Taking action based on that is another matter.
What is it that you are missing?
Perhaps some clue as to how he might reliably go about giving clients Myrna's card rather than a massage and doing it gracefully and seamlessly.
I still think he should go for the religious exemption. That's the only explanation for his deviance from industry standards that holds water. |
