“The silence on the part of religious liberty advocates in a pair of recent cases involving Muslim employees would appear to be a simple case of prioritizing the religious beliefs of Christians over those of minority workers. But the explanation may be both more and less cynical.” –LRRP Director Liz Platt
In Religion Dispatches, LRRP Director Liz Reiner Platt asks why conservative religious liberty advocates said nothing when Muslim workers at Cargill in Colorado and Ariens in Wisconsin lost their jobs in disputes over prayer breaks. She points to Islamophobia, but also to who pays: here, workers sought accommodations at their employers' expense, the reverse of cases like Hobby Lobby. Class matters too, she writes, since these were factory workers.