Posted on 10/12/2013 9:55:58 AM PDT by massmike
Crystal Dixon has run out of options.
Dixon, the former associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo (UT), sued her former employer in 2008 after she was fired for publishing a column expressing her opinions on homosexuality.
In February 2012, a federal judge ruled against Dixon. Later that year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concurred with the lower court. Now, this week, the United States Supreme Court has declined to hear Dixon’s appeal.
In her column, published in The Toledo Free Press, Dixon, who is black, had expressed her disagreement with comparisons made between the gay rights and black civil rights movements in a previous column by the editor of the publication.
“As a black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are ‘civil rights victims,’” wrote Dixon.
During a hearing into her case at the university in May 2008, Dixon defend the beliefs expressed in her column, and discounted allegations that those beliefs rendered her unfit to serve in her position.
“If the university is taking the Herculean leap to assume that my convictions affect my service to or decisions about those practicing homosexuality, please consider this,” she pleaded, “it is commonly believed/perceived that there are one, possibly two practicing homosexuals in the Human Resources Department. I hired both of them (one last year and one earlier this year)! I hired both of them with the perception that while they may be homosexual, more importantly they were competent, motivated, and simply the best candidates for the jobs.”
Apparently Ms. Dixon, your views don't mean sh!t to the Supreme Court - good luck with that.
Thou shalt not insult the oppressed minority du jour.
Black civil rights is so 60's...
But if she had been fired for a pro-queer column, the very first court would have sided with her.
Wow, if she had been fired for approving of homosexuality, she would have probably won
Ms. Dixon, you and the grievance gang you speak for are kicked to the curb. The Hispanics have more votes and the gays have more money. Welcome to the back of the Democrat Party bus - again.
U of Toledo is supposedly a “Christian” college?
No. Crystal Dixon is the administrator that got fired who happens to be a Christian.
Yes...it goes to show you that opinions on topics like this are only valid when it is pro - homo...[is that anything like Pro-bono? Oh now there it is, I’ve gone and done some kind of homo innuendo!]
How in the world did 3% of the population take over the whole country???
How long until Christians churches are forbidden from preaching against homosexuality?
So the first amendment is simply a nice thought within an extant document..
Indeed. Homosexuals have to be the richest and most powerful “oppressed, victim” group ever. How they’ve hoodwinked the public into thinking their lives are as bad or worse than say slaves on a plantation in 1820s Alabama has to be one of the most impressive con jobs in history.
Liberty flushed down the toilet.
When and how do we finally rise up?
I like this post by Dean Bailey in the comments section:
‘In the United States of America, our first liberty is Religious Liberty. No where in the constitution will you find something defined as “Homosexual Liberty.” But freedom of religion and an admonishment against our own government, supposedly restricting government from creating any law that restricts the free exercise of our religious liberty—that is the central issue of the very first amendment to the Constitution!
‘In it’s refusal to act to secure this first and foremost established liberty, the SCOTUS has demonstrated that it is no longer a reliable entity of godly and constitutional government. Furthermore, it shows itself to be yet another pawn of the homofascist ideology that has pervaded our government, and threatens to kill our most sacred of all liberties.
‘It is this liberty that recognizes that it is God our Creator, and not our Government, who grants people in good and moral societies the “certain unalienable rights” of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It is Government’s responsibility and duty to secure and protect these liberties, and not merely look the other way when they are threatened by homosexual fascism!
‘For those of you who would say, “what about the homosexual’s unalienable right to happiness?” I would remind you that no person’s true happiness is tied to the governmentally forced acceptance of everyone else in society towards the homosexual’s own individual behavior! If a homosexual needs me to accept their behavior in order to feel good about his or her self, then that very fact tells me that there is something horribly distorted about homosexuality and homosexual behaviors!
‘Unlike these activist homosexuals (and those who are pandering to their fascist ideology), I do not need any homosexual to agree with my Christian Faith in order to feel good about it, or about myself!
‘Most of us were truly willing to co-exist in a “to each his own” understanding that both respects and avoids our individual differences (for example, I would not go into a homosexual business to seek a Christian themed business need or pursuit, and I would expect the same mutual respect from gays toward Christian businesses... Nor would I fire a homosexual working within my business for publishing a written opinion during their own time outside of work, in support of their own personal ideologies). But the homosexuals seem wholly unwilling to accept this environment of mutual respect.
‘By THEIR own actions, homosexual activists have proven time and time again that there is to be NO co-existing here. And I say, “So be it!”
‘As the good people of this nation become more and more unwilling to put up with this sort of double standard and hypocrisy, I sense that there is a very real and present revolution brewing again in this nation. Our own government has reversed and abandoned everything that our Founding Fathers established, and our own Constitution gives the people of this nation the charge and duty to overthrow any such corrupted government to gain back our sacred liberties once again.
‘I hope I live to see it fulfilled!’
New world order’s foundations are who is really behind the pro-sodomy movement. NWO financiers of bygone days endowed these foundations, the net worth of which has grown to many billions today. The Ford Foundation alone spends about $500 million per year on its program activities and its assets are over $10 billion.
NWO’s financial oligarchs are actually using sodomites to further their own ends of destroying the institution of the family as part of the their path to world totalitarian government.
Under totalitarian regimes, sodomites are typically exterminated en masse, so once their usefulness to NWO has passed, NWO will kick them to the curb.
Most of those who promote sodomy don’t realize that “they” are simply doing the bidding of NWO financial overlords.
Does she not realize that she’s both 4th and 6th in the Liberal Caste System - after Muslims, LGBTP, Mexicans, then Blacks, Handicapped, and Women?
The 3% (gays) are being supported by the 80% (contracepting straights) who agree with their major premise: that sex has nothing intrinsically to do with procreation. And therefore nothing to do intrinsically with sexual differentiation.
Who to blame? Be sure to include the inventors of "The Pill".
Roberts is still afraid of Bathhouse Barry.
And to replace the natural family with the state. As Jean Jacques Rousseau put it:
“Each citizen would then be completely independent of all his fellow man, and absolutely dependent on the state.”
Private employers should be able to fire whoever they want, whenever they want.
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