Keith,
The atheist? Why do you say that?

Slag,
As a matter of fact, I am an American citizen. Obviously, you are not a manager, doctor, police officer, or a member of any other profession where your boss would fire you for offering religion to those over whom you have power. I don't think I've ever said that an offer of religion was illegal or unconstitutional.

Backwoodsman,
Of course I've heard of the Hippocratic oath. Ever hear of oath breakers, or people, like our nurse, for whom God trumps everything else?

Look, the nurse knowingly broke the rules of her employment three times and got the sack. This was not news; it happens every day. The religious law center she went to helped her get her job back by, in part, getting an inflammatory newspaper article published saying that she was fired for praying. Correct, on the surface; but she was really fired for breaking a rule, in this case a rule that she must have been taught about in nursing school, and which she accepted as a part of her employment. None of us would ever have heard about it if the religious law organization didn't have, as one of its main functions, the forcing of religion into places where we, as a society, have decided it is inappropriate.

The fact that she was done with her work with the patient for the day is irrelevant: is she never going to visit that patient again? The fact that the patient didn't object as much as the other health-care professional did is also irrelevant; the other worker had enough sense to recognize an ethics violation and report it. What if her next patient had been tortured by Christians as part of the war on terror? An extreme example, I know. I could come with several dozen less extreme, but this one gets the point across.

I'm interested in whether anyone has an answer for Spleen Cringe's question: When is it OK for someone in a position of power to offer religion? Where do you draw the line? Keith, you've said that you would respond like me to my examples, but not to this instance. Where is that pesky line?