Pagan police officers granted right to festival holidays.  |
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| http://www.dailymail.co.u... This is good news and brings it in line with various other faiths who can claim time off for their holy days. However the comment "What has it come to when a cop gets time off so he can sit about making spells or DANCE AROUND THE PLACE DRINKING HONEY BEER WITH A WAND IN HIS HAND?" cracked me up totally. | | | | | |
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1. laglen (7665)
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2 years ago
| | I think it is only fair. If Christians get Christmas off.... I think there should be freedom no matter what your beliefs. If they celebrate by dancing and drinking beer, so be it! | | | | | | |
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2. celticeagle (15697)
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2 years ago
| | I am so glad to see that people in some areas are lightning up about this subject. It has gone from overly extreme to making it a joke. Born agains a overly religious folks be damned! I think people should be responsible and respectful of others beliefs. I glad this was enjoyed and something positive. | | | | | | |
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3. bestboy19 (2453)
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2 years ago
| | Does that mean the pagan police have to work on the Christian holidays? | | | | | | |
hvedra (1204)
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2 years ago
| | I'd have thought that was obvious, you get your own holy days not other people's. | | | |
bestboy19 (2453)
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2 years ago
| | So the pagan police work on Christmas. | | | |
writersedge (7230)
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2 years ago
| | Someone has to work on Christmas in the Police Department. It makes more sense to let as many Christians off as they can and let the Pagans have their days off. Criminals don't take a holiday. It would be nice if they did. But in our area, domestic violence is up on the holidays. You can't let the entire police force off for Christmas and have no one to handle robberies, break-ins, and women/children being battered. Bestboy 19, maybe if you read my response, you'll understand better. Different holidays for different faiths makes sense for hospitals, correctional facilities, anywhere that can not close. It does make it hard to find babysitters for Christmas if your kids don't have grandparents, so their are some problems. But those problems have always existed. | | | |
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4. Galena (6230)
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2 years ago
| | I wonder why this is tagged mature content? on subject, yes, this is good. I think though it may be open to a bit of abuse, as there are so many festivals. if someone was really cheeky they could try and get the best part of a full months worth of days off in a year. there's Solar festivals, Agricultural festivals, and at least two lunar festivals a month. the vast majority of these can easily be celebrated around a working day, but it's nice that people will have the opportunity to have more flexibility, say with the Solstices, where many people celebrate by getting up early and watching the sunrise. or in winter, a lot of people are in work by the time the Sun shows up. this is good. I just hope no one abuses it. | | | | | | |
writersedge (7230)
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2 years ago
| | I guess if they say they will grant the equal number of days off that Christians get, then it wouldn't be abused. Many Christians want every Sunday off. That's 52 days a year right there. Then Christmas, that's 53 and Easter 54. Some places allow Good Friday off, that's 55. Since it's a police department, I'm sure they rotate their Sundays on and off. It would be interesting to see how they did it. 24 hour schedules are a bear to begin with. I don't envy them figuring this out. | | | |
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5. writersedge (7230)
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2 years ago
| | Good that you have a sense of humor. It actually works out well when any 24 hour entity allows different faith groups different time off. If the people that want Saturday off can get it because they're Jewish or 7th Day Adventists while Christians get Sunday Off (except the 7th people), then great! I was a Correction Officer and wishing I didn't have to take Christmas off because of seniority and because of my family celebrating Christmas. If I could have had my 4 main ones for my religion off, the 2 Solstices and the 2 Equinoxes instead of Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, that would have relieved the pressure of the Correctional Facility. Also I would prefer the full moons off to Sunday or Saturday which would help them out, too. People were constantly fighting over Sunday off. But my family is Christian, so they wouldn't have understood and I would have never gotten any holidays with them. Diversity Rocks! Hiring people of different faiths allows for different days off. Now about their funny comment. Does it dawn on them that people of Wiccan and other faiths meditate, pray, heal others, etc.? Obviously not. Oh well besides what's wrong with dancing? Around a fire or otherwise? Also many people obstain from alcohol, at least amoung the people I know of my faith. Oh well. Maybe with acceptance will come education. One can only hope. | | | | | | |
writersedge (7230)
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2 years ago
| | Thanks for best response. Having worked in a variety of situations, I think it comes in handy. Thanks and take care | | | |
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