Nurse suspended for offering to pray

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Well its nice of her to offer to pray, but the patients are a captive audience. Offering to pray is obviously her attempt to evangelize the patients.

I don’t see this as persecution of Christians. The patients are a captive audience and the employer doesn’t want employees taking advantage of that to promote a religion to them. It would be very different if she got to know the patients well enough to know which ones would appreciate prayers.

I agree. I have worked for employers who have wanted to pray at comany Xmas parties before dinner…we had Jewish and Hindu employees working for the company…I was very uncomforable with this very “evangelical prayer”…

If the nurse was instructed earlier to “back off” of her religious evangelization of patients…she should have done so. Being a “captive” once where I could not escape their evangelistic prayers is not a comfortable position to be in.

Surely she could have prayed for this woman with or without her permission as part of her regular prayer practice. I have sat with friends and family and prayed for them silently as I knew they did not embrace my religious persuasion.