Originally Posted by
jasepl
Totally OT, but I spoke too soon.
I was at the hospital early this morning and had to register.
The form asked for the usual basic information, name age etc. It also wanted to know my religion.
I put a line through it and turned in the form.
Woman: "What's your religion?"
Me: "How does it matter?"
Woman: "Some people are Jain and they want Jain food, so we need to know."
Me: "I'm going to be gone in an hour and you're not going to feed me so never mind."
Woman: "But I have to write something."
Me: "Write 'none'."
Next thing I know, she wrote "Christian".
A hospital asking for religion has valid reasons. You don;t have to answer the question if you don;t care for it. But if you don't, you can't sue the hospital for not handling your body according to your religious preferences, nor for circumcising or not circumcising your newborn son.
