[NAGDU] religious organizations and guide dogs

[Dan Weiner]

I have been led to believe that the LDS church doesn't allow guide dogs 
in their tabernacle. When I worked in Maryland a co-worker out of the 
blue walked up to me and said "is thee some place that guide dogs can 
stay when they can't accompany their owner"? not really knowing what the 
reason for this was I gave a non-committal answer, it turned out one of 
this lady's relatives wanted to go to a Mormon not sure i if it was a 
church or meeting place or temple or what, my apologies, in Washington, 
and they told them the guide dog wouldn't be welcome that in quotes "it 
would disturb the peace and serenity of the ceremony" I'm quoiting, I'm 
not trying to bash any religion. So I answered my colleague something 
disparaging about religion in general which I won't write here, oh  
heck,  I'll write it--lol I said that religion is suppose d to preach 
loving thy neighbor as  your brother and that that's fine apparently 
unless you have a guide dog. But anyway, so I believe there is a policy, 
I'm sure other religious groups have similar strictures.


Dan the man, Parker the hound dog



On 9/29/2017 7:23 AM, Star Gazer via NAGDU wrote:
> 				I checked Tara, and unfortunately you are
> correct, the LDS web site does have this policy, plain as day on their web
> site.  I am truly sorry. I was really hoping you had a dimwit usher.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:35 PM
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> Cc: Tara Briggs <thflute at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAGDU] Forwarded Article: This able-bodied dog lover makes a
> great case against faking service dogs
>
> Interesting. But can you make the argument that church meetings are open to
> the public and the religious exemption does  apply  there. For example, even
> though the public can walk into a church for any service. Can't the church
> exclude say blind people if they want to? Anyway, in this case, we  had to
> go onto the Internet and get tickets. That's what a friend of mine did and
> she invited us to come. The tickets were free but you did  have to get them
> in order to get a seat.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 28, 2017, at 8:23 PM, David via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> If the concert is open to the public, the church exception does not apply.
>>
>> *David and Claire Rose in Clearwater, FL*
>> *david at bakerinet.com*
>>> On 9/28/2017 7:53 PM, Star Gazer via NAGDU wrote:
>>> Even when they are open to the public?
>>> We have a meeting house (Mormon word for church building) that is open to
> the public for elections, i.e. it is a voting poll. There is no way they
> could or should restrict someone from going to the voting poll with a guide
> or service dog.
>>
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