FW: 75% of Minneapolis airport taxis refuse customers with alcohol

[Will Linden]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Paul Finkelman wrote:

> Sounds like Plessy v. Ferguson to me.  Separate but equal cabs.  No
> way.
>
> How far are we willing to take this:  what if they say they won't carry
> people who wear a cross a necklace with the Buddha (a pagan symbol for a
> devout Muslim); what about a Chistian cab driver who won't pick up
> someone with muslim or sikh garb?  It seems to me that this is a civil
> rights violation on the part of a common carrier.  The Taxi driver gets
> a license to carry peopel from place to place and may not discriminate
> on the basis of religion or race or anything else.
>

  I believe the difference is that there is a specific precept against "its 
grower and its presser and its CARRIER". The other examples do not involve 
any transgression by the *driver*.



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