Workplace Compromises - Where do We Draw the Line?

[Coder]

Even at grocery stores today teens must handle contraceptives at the register. How would such a situation apply to Catholic teens?

How about birth control and contraception at pharmacies?

Suppose a Catholic works for a company the makes many products including contraceptives and has to produce general marketing materials but some may include contraceptives, e.g. producing discount coupons for various products some of which are contraceptives.

Where do we draw the line as followers of Jesus?

 

[ForwardProgress]

Unless you graduated in condom manufacturing, you can find work elsewhere…

Pharmacies are the real toughie…if its the only way you can make ends meet, well, pray for the person you have to dispense to…same with selling stuff say at a convenience store…if that’s all you can do for employment.

For most things, you can find other industries. It’s like asking ‘hey, since I’m a cameraman, can I film porn movies? It’s not like I’m acting in them, or stimulated by them…’

 

[Coder]

…if its the only way you can make ends meet,…

Perhaps St. Paul is including to situations like these when he tells us to be under obligation to no one. Our financial obligations can tempt us to weaken our principles.

It’s like asking 'hey, since I’m a cameraman, can I film porn movies?

Actually, I think my examples are more analogous of a cameraman who has to refuse work at many studios because 1 out of 100 of the movies are pronography and most studios have this situation.

 

[Sixtus]

Yes,but you can take this to the n-th degree. I was ‘seriously spoken to’ by a line manager because I had a sticker on my rear car windscreen which was deemed as ‘grossely offensive, insensitive and inconsiderate towards others’.

I was ‘ordered’ to remove it under pain of diciplinary action if I did not. It was considered most inappropriate for a public servant to display such offensive material.

The offending sticker read: ABORTION: THE ULTIMATE IN CHILD ABUSE!

I refused and threatened to go to the press. My line manager dropped the case. But he never did like me after that, lied and did all manner of culumny and detraction to get me into trouble in other areas of work!

It was a real honour, priviledge and blessing to suffer for such noble a cause