Posted on 11/01/2009 4:07:31 PM PST by bocopar
Gays demand tolerance and inclusion.
See how long that lasts once should they continue to get people fired because they dare not agree with their brand of "marriage"....
(Excerpt) Read more at black-and-right.com ...
how very tolerant of the woman.
*sarcasm*
I will let you take this one.......
Ask California for a loan if you need one.
As one of the posters at the link asked, would the store have taken that action if he was a Muslim?
Brookstone’s excuse: homosexual marriage is legal in Massachusetts so it’s not harassment.
Blowjobs are legal in Massachusetts, too. Does that mean an employee can talk about getting blowjobs all day at work and it’s not harassment?
another outright attack on “freedom of speech” and “freedom of association”.
Sounds like an open and shut case.....
for Jay Seculow and the ACLJ- American Center for Law and Justice!
I hope he sues the cr#p out of Brookstone!
[In MA, Accept Gay Marriage Or Lose Your Job]
Did Bonnie Fwank ever get married? Maybe he is secretly straight..... Naw.
One day closer to a bloody reckoning in the streets. Keep pushing you SOB’s.
If she kept talking about pork chops to a practicing Jew I’d think that the Jew would have the harrassment case against her.
Would the store fire a homosexual who was speaking against heterosexual marriage? Heterosexual marriage is legal in MA.
This guy should sue and when his story gets out, people should boycott Brookstone’s.
That's what he should have done - the first time she re-opened the subject, he should have told her that her sex life is her personal business and he considered it harassment for her to force any details of it on him. Then file HIS complaint first.
” people should boycott Brookstone’s.”
They can considered themselves boycotted by me.
I have nothing to worry about;I live in Florida and I don’t have a job! Nothing in my area to be found. I want my handout from Obama!!!
Are we gonna have to deal with those who are into S&M next? Are they going to demand special rights ‘cause of what they do sexually?
The problem is that normal people do not think like that.
Even more brain drain predicted for MA.
Gee who will be around to tax to death to pay for MassCare?
This man should be able to get his job back and speak openly and freely about his beliefs, just as the lesbian store manager should be able to put a picture of her wife on her desk. That's what freedom means - tolerating even the beliefs we don't understand and find repugnant.
Christians aren't fired if they tell a Buddhist employee they don't agree with their beliefs (and visa versa). The same should be held here. Freedom of religion is fundamental and comes from God.
I say sue. Take them to court.
Why did this woman keep approaching him with this subject? I think the second time she did it, he should have made some excuse to be somewhere else, and left her presence immediately. This woman would have to be pretty dense not to take a hint.
Guess which state I’ll never visit !
Also, I’ll not even buy anything online if I find out they have anything to do with that commie fruit state.
I’d like to know why the woman’s name was blacked out, and I’d also like to know why she got a pass for her insistance on discussing personal business on company time.
I hope he sues her and Brookstones as well.
Brookstones should get some angry emails, letters and phone calls.
No problem there. Overpriced, gimmicky crap is all they offer.
Won't happen; this is mAssachusetts, remember? "Give me a break, it's legal now." If they can wantonly force feed this bilge to children of all ages, what chance do you think any sane person has in the workplace?
Time to start. Make a joke out of it rather than a rant when you tell the story about the guy getting fired, and get the idea out there that WE can sue TOO.
She was looking for an opportunity to do him harm in revenge for his lack of moral approval. The FIRST time someone starts telling you about their sex life, tell them you don't want to know, preferably in front of a witness. The SECOND time, file a harassment complaint with HR.
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Make you wonder who was harassing who and if all this was a set-up.
I've worked with gay people and by God, that's all they talk about. When they came around to asking me what I thought, I would say, "I don't see how any of this is my business."
Be sure to add a statement about it being inappropriate for the workplace, and make a private note of the circumstances (date, any witnesses, what the previous topic of conversation was). The next time they start up, file the complaint and do NOT warn them or they’ll file one first.
I wrote them and told them they can expect a boycott:
My wife and I are long time purchasers of your products, including your massaging foot bath, a computer mouse as well as other items.
Now I am organizing a boycott of your company because of your shameful treatment of employee Peter Vadala.
In this economy and with Christmas approaching, we will see how your strong-armed tactics against decent Americans holds up in the market place. Peter was fired because he said he disagreed with homosexuality.
If this article is inaccurate in any substantive way, I am willing to listen: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114779
As of now, I look forward to reading of your filing for Chapter 11 as a warning to other companies who wish to bully employees in this manner.
Thanks for your reply. I too read the article on worldnetdaily. I hope this story goes all the way around the web, Brookstones deserves a boot in the a$$.
As I read the story and saw the hostile and unfair treatment from both of the women, it made me wonder if this place wasn’t a nest of lesbians. By that I mean, that it is possible that a lesbian got a management position there and then started hiring other lesbians. It is possible that he was already working there before the lesbians arrived and they did not want him there. I don’t know if this is true, it is just the impression that I get.
Do you think that he could have a strong sexual harassment case against the store? The lesbian manager brought up a sexual topic that made him uncomfortable and after she saw that he was uncomfortable, she continued to hound him three more times. She was definitely badgering him. After harassing him with a sexual topic that made him feel uncomfortable, she has him fired.
If this were a woman who’s male boss brought up a sexual topic that made her uncomfortable and continued to bring up the subject three more times, and then fires her when she complains, it would be considered sexual harassment. This lesbian manager was forcing her lesbianism on this male employee who was uncomfortable with the subject. She continued to harass him and then had him fired. I think this was sexual harassment and I hope that he sues the manager and Brookstones.
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The S&M “community” is part of the glbt “communities”. Glbt means gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. The list just keeps growing and growing.
I live here in the “gay” state Massachusetts. When the subject of same sex marriage was being discussed on the radio, it would make me furious to here some callers say things like: “It doesn’t effect my marriage” and “Let them get married what harm can it do.” I would love to kick everyone of those people in the can for being so common sense deprived.
“just as the lesbian store manager should be able to put a picture of her wife on her desk.”
No, she shouldn’t.
“That’s what freedom means - tolerating even the beliefs we don’t understand and find repugnant.”
Same-sex attraction disorder is not a belief. It is a tragically harmful, and transmissible, mental disorder. It should no more be tolerated than alcoholism or pedophilia.
Some cases cry out for a legal response. I hope this man sues his former employer.
In this case, the private business was a company called Brookstone. They have a belief (which most of us do not agree with), but it is their private property and so they have the right to do whatever they want on it without the government interfering. If we have a problem with their specific beliefs, we can either 1.) boycott, 2.) open a competing store and put them out of business, or 3.) ignore them entirely.
That is exactly what freedom is. Someone has the constitutional right to be a racist and the government can't do anything about it. But the people in the town around the person can - they can shun them at the grocery store, refuse to cut their hair in their privately owned salon, or not associate with them in the local coffee shop. The same goes for this store manager.
If you trust government with that kind of power, you have far more faith in it than I do. It's the same reason I believe that the owner of Free Republic has the right to moderate comments (it's HIS property), just like YouTube has the right to remove videos it doesn't like (they paid for the servers). As long as no one is being harmed, the United States government has absolutely no right to go on to someone's property and tell them what to do, no matter how nutty they are.
I wrote them too and the HR lady who wrote the firing letter is Susan McGrath and her phone number is 866-806-4887 x8533
The letter is on massresistance.org. I plan on calling next week.
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