In this case, the floor staff was not aware that it was their religeous right to wear it any damn place they wanted it too. The floor staff actually thought these people were part of a gang.

It wasnt until the manager got into it when he realized what was happening. He tried to placate the group, to no avail.

My questions is, HOW IN HELL CAN YOU NOT KNOW THIS STUFF??? Do these people NOT watch any television that doesnt involve cartoons?

Good publicity dont you think?

Not sure if this should have been here or in one of the other forums.

Splinter groups and cults sometimes make up their own dress codes. The Yahways come to mind, but this group was (treading carefully here) found to have members in high places that were engaged in serious felonious behavior. A dress code imposed by those leaders would not stand up under court scrutiny. Freedom of religion has definite limits in the U.S., as some extreme Jehovah's Witnesses have discovered after withholding medical care from their children.

Carmike would still have insurance even if in financial difficulty. This is what the bottom sucking lawyers would be after.

The thing here is that the ticket taker should have denied them entrance into the place before it got out of hand.
Mark @ GTS

Orthodox Jewish males may follow the Biblical injunction against cutting the corners of their beards, and most cover their heads with a hat or skullcap denoting humility before God. the way Christians uncover their heads in church for a similar reason.

School administrators, sports teams and employers often allow such religious symbolic expression when it is based on sincere religious conviction.

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Sufis are generally (Shi'ite) Moslem, although they don't have to be. Perhaps you were mixing the Sikhs and Sufis up. Sufi dress varies according to the group. Whirling dervishes have a stylized code of dress but most don't have any dress code.

It is true that dress codes have to be applied across the board, but you do have to remember that not all persons that dress in a certain way are showing gang affiliation. Would you force orthodox jews to remove thier yammicas (sic)? The jewish community would have you across thier legal laps giving you the court equivilant of a good spanking.

Even if you apply certain rules across the board regarding dress, you take away a persons right to express themselves, denying the freedom of speech. Violence and crude behavior is forbidden, but to say that you cant wear hats, thats like saying that you cant dance in Provo Utah after 10 pm. Oh wait, they do that now.

I am all for security and safety, and even willing to give a little of my own personal freedoms to get it. But I would not bend even a small amount on what rights that as human biengs we should be able to enjoy.

My true objection with what happened is that our educational system is so broken down that these kids don't even know a damn thing about the people around them. They don't even have an interest in caring anyway. And to think that in thirty years, these kids are going to be our senators and congressmen, and god forbid, the president.

I think now is a good time to become canadian.

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- dave
Look at this! His chin strap has been cut!

1. The laughable thing about religious dress codes is that people have the natural ability to wear all types of dress. Go to South Beach nightclubs if you don't believe me. Religions place dress RESTRICTIONS on people, and then complain when other restrictions interfere with their own restrictions. To me that makes the idea of it being a "freedom of religion" or "freedom of speech" issue ludicrous.

2. The state of Florida until recently allowed Muslim women to cover their faces when having their driver's licence picture taken. (Imagine a trooper looking at such a licence, looking at the driver, and then back at the licence... "You don't look like this piece of cloth...") It no longer does, as the "right to drive" is not a given constitutional right.

3. Technically, since graven images are forbidden as part of Muslim fundementalism, if these men were true believers, they shouldn't have been going to a theatre in the first place. People with extreme religious intolerances and views can't pick and choose from a smorgasboard of intolerances and expect to have people or the courts respect those choices.

4. Sometimes the religious intolerants have to be treated as the pricks that they are. I've seen orthodox members of one religion walk down the street, pass by a member of the reform version of the same religion, and spit on them. Some may call that religious freedom, but if G-- requires such behavior from his believers, I'm in the other camp and ready to fight.

5. If you stop and think about the climate of the middle east where the western religions sprung up, and then you consider that these religions were promoted and ruled by old men, you start to realize that just perhaps one of the reasons for the head coverings was to keep some frail old bald heads from getting sunburned.

"Oh great teacher, why is your head covered?"