Edwin A. Graning, Minister & Bus Driver, Fired for Refusing to Bring Patient to Planned Parenthood

• TypeANegative, do you really think it would make a difference if the girl told the bus driver she was going to have an abortion or not? He's there to drive the public to their destinations, that's it. She didn't ask him to perform her abortion, or get his okay. What are you thinking?

• many of the taxi drivers I've dealt with. learn thru asking their passengers where they are heading. and some times why they are going that way.

• Did she specifically say that she was going to Planned Parenthood in order to have an abortion? If not, then I don't think a lawsuit is in order.

• Some cab drivers will not pick you up if you have liquor... I think think he should be talking to his boss and if they can come to a conclusion good if not too bad. Honestly I would not have taken her there if i knew that's what she was going to do. But maybe that's why I don't drive a bus! She should have called Obama he would have loved to have taken her!

• The man is obviously one of those people that must impose his values on others and is too incompetent to execute the position for which he was hired. If anything, the person he refused to take to their destination should sue HIM for discrimination.

• There are a lot of stories about Muslim cab drivers refusing to drive people with companion dogs. They're different though. If the guy was insubordinant then he should be warned and or fired. Frankly I would refuse to drive Mitch McConnell because he would have to ask his good friend Harry Reid if it was ok to take the Robert Byrd Expressway

• He should have been fired. His case should be thrown out of court. He is an employee of a company when he is behind the wheel of the bus. It doesn't matter where the passenger requests to go it is his responsibility to see that they get there.

• The guy should get is ass fired AND handed to him by the judge via the attempt to sue. Aside from his jumping to conclusions, my dear, very Christian mother said it best, the first time I EVER heard her say anything against any of my father's right-wing tirades. She said, "Shut up and stop it now, you're a man and you will never, ever have to face a personal decision like that. You have no right to decide for anyone else, it is not right." And he actually shut up. And I was surprised she had thought it through, she usually let him be the decision-maker on political thought.

• Why are people against abortion anyway? A baby is alot of money and responsibility, and they should decide rather they want the responsibility. What if they wasnt capable of raising the child? What if they didnt have any money, a drug problem or disability or something. Should they give a child to the stranger? Some adoptive parents can be abusive too. If you are really against abortion dont support the premaritial sex groups and fewer people will get abortions. The premartial sex is okay attitude is the problem with the world. Safe sex isnt safe at all.

• If he cannot do his job he certainly shouldn't get paid in a lawsuit for NOT doing it. Ridiculous.

• He has no right to sue, but sadly I can see him winning the law suit. He was hired to do his job, if he refuses a customer then he should get fired. It's not like she asked him to be her getaway car in a bank robbery. His believes shouldn't matter when he's at work. Besides, for all anyone knows she could have just been going there to get a check up. Peoples' beliefs shouldn't stop them from doing their job. It's like when I was still in high school and went to go pick up birth control. The pharmacist was new and I had to sign a slip saying that the medication was for me. She looked at my age and refused to give me the birth control because I was only 16. I told her that I needed it for medical purposes (which was true). It basically ended in me becoming angry and getting the supervisor. Needless to say, the girl got fired and threatened to sue, the store told her that in her employment papers she signed, she agreed to not let her personal beliefs interfear with work.

• What a fucking douche nozzle.

• His rights or no, he doesn't have the right to trample on someone else's rights. He's not this woman's father, he has no right to tell her how to live her life. I'm alright with people practicing their religions, but when it starts to interfere with other people's lives that's where I draw the line. If you are a pharmacist, you don't get to cherry pick what drugs to give a patient. If you are a driver you don't decide where a person is allowed to go. If you are Muslim or Jewish or Vegan you can't decide not to give a person bacon on their pizza because it's against your beliefs, because it's what they asked for and it's your job to provide it.

• *DISCLAIMER* This is not a troll *DISCLAIMER* Devout Muslims are not allowed to gamble. If a devotee to the Muslim faith was asked to drive a passenger(client/customer) to a casino would they be fired for refusing to do so? YES! Same as this dillhole their religous beliefs are not part of their job description. The job description is to drive the bus route. If they are driving a dial-a-bus then their job is take the people where they want to go. End of story.

• Doesn't the same thing happen with pharmacists and the Plan-B pill? I thought they do not have protections for refusal to comply. Same should be said of any job.

• If a job has you do things that violate your conscience, then either don't take the job in the first place, or quit. It's that simple.

• He was wrong for so many reasons. He has a job to do, do it. This isn't make your job description. You drive a bus, you don't get to pass judgment or give sermons as part of your job. And like AG said, he had no idea why this girl/woman was going - he jumped to a conclusion. Religious reasons? Cut me a break. Don't get all holy roller and then expect there not to be any ramifications. I highly doubt she got on and told him what her plans where. Do your job. End of story.

• If his religious views prevent him from meeting the requirements of his job, he needs to find a new job.

• I think at that point he needed to make a decision in which was more important to him. His job or his beliefs. In my opinion you can't mix the two. He chose to follow his beliefs , which we are all entitled to but, you can't apply or force your beliefs on others no matter where you are. Especially on the clock. He deserved to be fired simply because he refused services to a customer utilizing prejudice intentions. There should be no grounds for liability on the employers part.....he was hired to do a job and he refused to do it.because of his personal beliefs....

• where his passengers want to go is none of his business other than him taking them there

• Ok. I don't think he should be allowed to sue. And for him to assume that the patient wanted to go to Planned Parenthood for an abortion is libel or slander. At least i think it is. Who knows, maybe she wa already pregnat and was going for a checkup! He has no right to make his assumations to a person. Sue him in civil court!!!! Bet he won't be preaching for jesus. he will be preaching to the judge!

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