Is this legal?
Posted on: January 7, 2009 - 3:44pm
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Is this legal?
I was stuck on QRA (Quick Re-Action) over new year, and we got a visit from the scripture reader. We are not aloud to leave the QRA building so everyone's usual tactic of running away could not work.
Anyway she automatically turned the conversation on to god and plus trying to disprove evolution (luckily one of the lads on duty was studying zoology with his ALC so that was quickly stopped).
Is there anyone who knows the legal system well enough to stop these people coming in to our place of work and preaching their crap?
It is not too bad when we can just run away but when we are on certain duties we have to stay put.
thanks
Plus happy new year everyone
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Which legal system would we be discussing? The posters here are an international lot. I know a few Canadian lawyers who would know for Canada, but not necessarily for the US or UK.
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Just the UK system
I'm Just getting pissed off with fundamentals coming into my place of work where I can't choose to ignore them and they tell me how I'm going to burn for enternity. These Preachers know we can't leave so they target duty's such as Guard and QRA so they get an audience.
It would be such a relief if there was a way of baning them from pesturing us.
Article 9 of the European Commission of Human Rights seems to protect both you and the preacher.
Would you be in a room where you could not possibly leave the preacher's presentation, or be fired?
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
What's wrong with a polite "Sir, please move along now?". If you're actually guarding something, that's a perfectly appropriate thing to say.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
Personally, I think I'd argue to a senior rank that the preacher is a distraction, and keeps you from effectively attending to your duties, as well as reducing morale to the point of retreat (from the building, that is). Short, simple, and cute enough to keep you from looking like too much of a dick (depending on who's reading the complaint).
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Correct, we are not aloud to leave the building as we have to listen to the XXXX (secret stuff)
problem is they are approved by the RAF to preach to us even though none of us want them to.
How many of these preachers are there that you can't just leave the room and go to another room in the building? Or do they require that you listen to both the briefing and the preaching before you leave the room? Or do they hang out in the cafeteria and pounce? Maybe you're in a hangar, and there's no escape from the noise of it?
See, here's the problem: you're in the military. If you objected to every piece of nonsense out of an officer's mouth, you'd be filling out paperwork until you died of carpal tunnel!
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Are you in the RAF? Are you armed? If you are, move his ass along.
On most duties we have a crew room, in this room contains things like TV and internet. We can go to other rooms like the toilet or the kitchen but that is not fair, they choose to be there we do not. why should I have to go to the kitchen just because I do not want to talk to this stupid person. If they where like the pardre I would not mind he just hands out chocolate and does not talk about which god is the correct god.