Posted on 04/01/2014 6:54:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A New York appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s 2012 ruling that a lesbian chef is owed $1.6 million for being forced to attend weekly prayer meetings where her boss would regularly warn that "gay people" were "going to go to hell."
Mirella Salemi sued Gloria's Tribeca Inc., Gloria's Tribecamex and principal owner Edward Globokar for violations of the New York City Human Rights Law after a string of incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2007. Gloria's Tribeca is a Mexican restaurant.
Salemi was awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages in what her lawyer, Derek Smith, called "the largest employment verdict in 2012 in New York." A three-judge panel of the Appellate Division's Manhattan-based First Department affirmed the verdict for Salemi.
“He not only threatened her soul, but he also threatened her livelihood,” Smith told the New York Post in 2012. “He thought praying might cure her of her sexuality, but she is someone who didn’t need to be saved.”
Globokar had attempted to argue that he was simply exercising his right to free speech.
"The trial court properly protected Globokar's First Amendment rights by instructing the jury that he had 'a right to express his religious beliefs and practice religion, providing that he does not discriminate against his employees based on religion or sexual orientation,'" the judges wrote in their ruling.
That’s ridiculous.
But I agree that she should not be forced to go to church.
She does not like men yet she wants to look like one.
I don’t understand these dykes at all.
I know I am going to die at some point but I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
I know I am going to die at some point but I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
Here is an interesting thought: Back when the old and new testaments were being written, fire was synonimous with both heat and light. All lights were a form of fire. It was a part of the human psyche. It makes one muse about all those places in the bible where it is translated “light” vs where it is translated “fire” and if all of them are correct.
Just an interesting mental exercise.
What about a lake of “light of God’s presence” that destroys the unsaved? Sorry, just thinking out loud. ;-)
The article doesn't detail how the criminal portion of this case came out. Sounds like kidnapping to me...
I thought Tom Clancy died recently? Looks like he lost a little weight.
Boo Daggers..... is the most confused people... on the planet.
I have not even heard of a ‘Boo Dagger’ until now.
I wonder what “force” was used to compel her attendance..."Attend these weekly company prayer meetings or be fired." is considered to be 'force' in the context of the law. May not be right, but there it is.
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