Originally posted by: tia.o
This is where reasonable accommodation comes into consideration. What does a vegetarian person do in a school? Or a food court? Or in a hotel while travelling? Where other children or people serve and eat Non-vegetarian food? They sit in one table even beside a table where other people are probably eating hard core Non-vegetarian food and concentrate on their food, not on others. But here even a separate room serving Non-vegetarian food is supposed to be offensive.
Another example, if I take your logic, then I will have to conclude that a pure vegetarian person will never attend any Non-vegetarian person's wedding regardless how close friends they are. But that's not the case. They do attend other culture's wedding and do eat at the vegetarian section. Same with office parties. And why is that? Because it's someone else's wedding.
Besides most wedding doesn't happen where food is served anyway. Usually where weddings happens as in Mandap is set up, the food counters other than a coffee machine or people serving starters are not set up there. No other food is allowed there anyway. And since starters can be pure vegetarian, again not an issue.
Sikh weddings are done in Gurdwara - a holy place. If the wedding was taking place in temple then yes. It's then reasonable to demand vegetarian food. But that does not compare with a hotel or banquet hall. People don't close down a restaurant because they have hired a banquet hall in the same hotel for the wedding and non-vegetarian food will ruin that. Also pure vegetarian people do hire banquet hall where previously, possibly even the day before a non-veg wedding might have taken place. They don't demand the history of the banquet hall.
So the conclusion of the story is, people impose their will on other where they can. And no, reasonable accommodation can be expected from even pure vegetarian people. The same accommodation that they make for their friends, colleagues, or even strangers at a food court; the same consideration they expect from others, yet refuse to make for a family that is going to be joined with their family by marriage. Like I said, a closed mind can never stop making excuses while an open mind makes relationships.