Ethics

Angels on the Head of a Pin Redux

By Ed Brayton

Howard Friedman reports on an absolutely idiotic lawsuit in England brought by a Jewish couple. This just cracks me up:

Dr. Dena Coleman, a head teacher at an Orthodox Jewish school in London and her husband Gordon, who purchased a vacation apartment in a building in the town in 2003, object to the motion-sensing light switch that the management company of their building placed in communal hallways six months ago. The Colemans complain that the sensor forces them to be prisoners in their own apartment on the Sabbath, since triggering the lights during the Sabbath by walking into the hallway violates their religious beliefs.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).