Have you ever felt discriminated against because of your religious beliefs?

Question

Have you ever felt discriminated against because of your religious beliefs?

Answer 1

I am Catholic.  So that's a big "h**l yes".

As one example among many - I grew interested in a co-worker a few years ago.  Went to her house, met her parents.  They found out I was Catholic, and she was suddenly forbidden from being my friend at all, was moved to a different department(but close by).  Because the department was close, we still had to interact as part of our jobs, which would usually result in the parents showing up at work the next day to talk to her and give me evil looks.

My mother (also Catholic) was friends with a lady for years.  The lady found out she was Catholic, and mid conversation, turned around went into her house, and never spoke to her again.

**** happens.

Answer 2

many times but all it does is strengthen me and draws me closer to the lord

Answer 3

only by christians on here

Answer 4

Yes I have felt it and was discriminated against,.more because of the religion of my parents as I was a kid and hadn't commited to any of it  

Answer 5

I have been discriminated against for my lack of religious beliefs. Being an atheist in the Bible belt leads to discrimination.

Answer 6

Yes, I worked for quite a while in Hollywood.  I would get asked point blank almost every interview if I was Jewish or not - I was honest - I didn't get much work.

Answer 7

Not overtly. About the worst I've ever gotten is some freaked-out stares at my pentacle. In subtle ways, though, I am discriminated against. I cannot wear said pentacle to work, not only because I work for a Catholic organization, but also due to the ignorance of people who would take it as something that it's not. I don't get MY holidays off work, I have to take the Christian ones. You find ways to cope, but, yes, these things are discriminatory.

Answer 8

Oh sure. I didn't want to believe that it could happen in this day and when it did I was sort of in shock at how someone could be so completely ignorant on top of breaking the law.

I was in a new job and I was hired several weeks after they really needed someone to fill int he position. I literally came in, no resume nothing, and they basically handed it to me and said, "Do you want the job?" and hired me that same day.

About 6 weeks later they told me I would need to do an event, and in fact the position often had Saturday events that would come up. Me, being Orthodox, I do not go out on the Sabbath and told them so.

So, I arranged with people in my department to cover that day and the Department head kept telling me that I can't ask others to do it all the time, even if they said yes, and trying to put some sort of guilt trip on me. I asked her to make a system by which if these events occurred that I would know the protocol on having it covered if it was an event that required some presence.

She later confronted me and said, "If I had known you couldn't do Saturdays I wouldn't have hired you." Mind you, she never mentioned any of this during the hiring phase and I am not required to tell her my religion.

I told her that she just broke the Civil Rights Laws and the Constitution.

She said she felt I was playing the Religion Card.

After a few e-mails that were CC'd to several leaders in the community, she came into my class and denied that the version of events happened as I had recalled in e-mail and she did this in front of others.

4 hours later she came back, said the situation was handled, she was wrong, and didn't say a word the rest of the year.

Answer 9

Yes, but only here.  I have been told that I am worthy only of ridicule because I am a Christian.

Answer 10

Hows this for discrimination?

At the age of ten, my father lost his job because they found out he was a Baha'i.

Me and my sister could not attend Universities or higher education for being Baha'is.

Baha'is get executed and stoned to death every week for being Baha'i in Iran.  

So Yes.. I have been discriminated against.

Now that I live in Canada, things have gotten much much better. Why? Because I have the freedom.  

Answer 11

NO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY!

Answer 12

oh yes

Answer 13

Yes

Answer 14

Every single day.

Sad thing is, most of the time it's on here.

Answer 15

Only when I was very young at school and those Catholic kids used to say all us protestants were going to h**l for practicing the wrong religion.

Answer 16

I am blessed to be where I am I guess. Here, anyone is welcome. where I live that is.