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Pastor Wins Discrimination Tribunal After Being Targeted at Work for Homosexuality Beliefs [UK]
The Christian Post ^ | 6/3/20 | Samuel Smith

Posted on 06/10/2020 6:15:30 PM PDT by marshmallow

Former disco music writer-turned-Christian pastor in England, who says he was shunned at work after making what a coworker believes was a homophobic comment, has won a discrimination claim in an employment tribunal.

London Central Tribunal Centre Judge Andrew James ruled in favor of 62-year-old Rev. George Hargreaves and found that the pastor had been unfairly targeted by a former colleague for stating his religious beliefs on homosexuality, according to British media reports.

Hargreaves currently works as a concierge for a homeless charity in South Kensington called Evolve Housing + Support. He wrote the hit 1980s song “So Macho” before being ordained in 1990 as a Pentecostal pastor. He also found the right-wing political party the Christian Party in 2004.

According to The Daily Mail, Hargreaves filed a complaint after a former colleague, Elizabeth Akano, who is in her 20s, started ignoring him around January 2019 and even told him that she no longer respected him because of his views on homosexuality.

The tribunal was told Akano and Hargreaves had a discussion at work one day in which “Akano made a comment to the effect that ‘people are born gay.’” Hargreaves replied something to the effect that “pedophiles make the same argument, that they are born that way.”

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1 posted on 06/10/2020 6:15:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

sounds like SHE is free to dislike what pedophiles do, but he’s not free to dislike what homosexuals do. according to HER.


2 posted on 06/10/2020 6:17:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

Finally.


3 posted on 06/10/2020 6:26:54 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: marshmallow

Pedophiles do in fact make the claim that they were born that way. Facts are illegal in the U.K., if those facts make certain people uncomfortable.


4 posted on 06/10/2020 6:29:43 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: marshmallow

“You are one of those black men who like white women.”


5 posted on 06/10/2020 6:58:21 PM PDT by Scram1
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Following that logical extension are people who murder born that way? What about rapists??Fatalism will eventually kill ya’.


6 posted on 06/10/2020 7:13:34 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

Natural born killers, I guess. Saying “they were born that way” is just an excuse for homosexuals to avoid responsibility for their actions. Everything you do is a choice, even for alcoholics with hereditary alcoholism (although even that is debatable). There is no ‘gay gene’, and studies of identical twins help prove it. So if not DNA, then what?


7 posted on 06/10/2020 9:21:10 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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