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It's ironic (or perhaps hypocritical) that the business owners strongly adhere to their religion's standards for the Sabbath and holidays but not its standards for the treatment of people. There is no atheist belief system to be inconsistently applied.

To be fair, B&H is well known for following Jewish customs very zealously - their website won't even take orders during the Sabbath, for instance.

I understand that, but I fail to see how it has any bearing on the story.

They just explained why. They're very religious, they believe strongly in their religious text, and yet they've been accused of violating one of the teachings of that text. It doesn't matter what religion they support, what matters is that they're violating one of its tenants.

> If they were atheist would that change the situation?

Yes. Atheists aren't well known for making women ride in the back of buses and banning them from public places.

Granted the skeptic community had a lot of issues with women also, but they are completely different issues.