Supreme Court Should Stand Up For Man Fired By Walgreens For Honoring Sabbath

(The Washington Examiner) The Supreme Court may hear yet another fascinating case pitting religious freedom against the decision-making rights of private businesses. In this case it involves one mans desire to honor the Sabbath and his right to work at a company free of religious discrimination. Darrell Patterson was a practicing Seventh-day Adventist who worked for Walgreens for six years. Seventh-day Adventists honor the seventh day Saturday because God commanded his people to do so. Patterson had an agreement with his supervisor at Walgreens: Because he was a Seventh-day Adventist he could not work on Saturday but fellow co-workers covered any of Pattersons shifts during that period of time. For six years Patterson didnt work on Saturdays but never failed to perform well at his job and often traded Sunday shifts with co-workers to accommodate his faiths practices. However one Saturday Walgreens executives scheduled an emergency weekend training on Saturday after an error the company made. Patterson was unable to attend the training and was subsequently fired. Read More