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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:53:19 +0000, Janet Tweedy
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The next post should be a quote from the Daily Telegraph about
the
German woman refused unemployment benefits because she refused to
become a prostitute when offered a job.


I think the saddest thing is not that it's true or untrue but that
many of us BELIEVE it to be a feasible scenario!
http://tinyurl.com/63yet
'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your
benefits'
By Clare Chapman
(Filed: 30/01/2005)

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual
services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her
unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

[...]

Gosh! I find the legal problem intriguing; and I confess that it had
never occurred to me as a consequence of legalising the game. This is
now way OT, of course; but I wonder how they'll get around it?
Introducing a general conscience clause would be fraught with
difficulties: it's one thing to allow conscientious objectors to
refuse to be forced into the army, or to allow an unemployed rabbi to
turn down the post of Lutheran Pastor; but what about refusing to
work in a casino because you think it's immoral, or at a meat counter
because you're a vegan? Hmm...

Mike.