Muslim staff can discriminate based on their religious beliefs.

[RainDog]

299. I don't think someone could ask that of a potential employee

however, jobs have duties and people who post jobs post those duties and those who apply for jobs are applying with the understanding that they can perform those duties - some of them are simple like "Can you lift boxes of up to 40lbs?" (This is a standard on job descriptions for libraries, museums, etc.)

Someone who applied for the job and said he or she could do this, then refused to do it would be lying in his/her job interview and that's grounds for termination.

It seems to me that the duties of a job can and should be listed, including the ability to handle certain products. If someone cannot, then that person is not the person for the job.

I find it troublesome that someone claims religious exemption in a job for which the performance of it requires certain things - as in the pharmacist/birth control issue.

I don't want to stop someone from practicing any particular religion, but, as a business owner, I wouldn't hire someone whose religion made it impossible to do the job for which they were hired.