Man Faces Losing Home, Has Pay Cut Over 35% for Opposing Gay Marriage

Pundit Press ^ | 10/24/11 | Aurelius

[therightliveswithus]

Adrian Smith, a 54-year-old father of two, posted on his private Facebook account that he disapproves of gay marriage because of his Christian beliefs. He wrote that allowing homosexuals to wed would be "an equality too far." It is important to point out that the comment could only be viewed by Mr. Smith's confirmed friends on Facebook, and was not public.

Instead of being allowed to voice his right to free speech, he was brought in front of his employers, the Trafford Housing Trust in Greater Manchester. They declared that he was guilty of "gross misconduct."

As a consequence, they cut his pay by over £10,000, from £35,000 a year to £21,396...

With such a severe decrease in salary, Mr. Smith now faces the prospect of losing his house.

[Vanders9]

I'm afraid that chickensoup is right. The constitution talks a good talk, but in the end - its words on paper. To work, the truths it states have to be believed in AND acted upon by citizens.

In other words, if you dont stand up for the constitution, there are whole legions of people out there who will twist it, trash it, "reinterpret" it, or otherwise subvert it.

[Vanders9]

Its immaterial whether he has privacy or not. His employers have no right to punish him for expressing an opinion, assuming that he did so politely and not in connection with his job function.

[cuban leaf]

—To work, the truths it states have to be believed in AND acted upon by citizens.—

I agree. And “acted upon”, unfortunately far too often, means going to court. Sometimes you have to fight for your rights. Just being right isn’t enough.

[Chickensoup]

And If I said what this guy apparently said, only to specific friends on facebook, I’d be getting a good attorney to make me some nice extra income off this - in the US at least

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In our current regime, you may be right in all senses but still destroyed by the left. We are no longer free, constitutional people. For Pete’s sake we have a SCOTUS that is looking at international law to decide cases.

[Chickensoup]

Its immaterial whether he has privacy or not. His employers have no right to punish him for expressing an opinion, assuming that he did so politely and not in connection with his job function.

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This has been happening for years. Look at what happened in Calif. I remember 15 years ago an woman activist in a community had her husband’s job picketed because of her volunteer work in the community. He lost his job. No one want to or can take on the Leftist lobbies, black , hispanic, muslim or homosexual. There is not enough protection in the conservative community. No one will help you. Until we band together as a group and have angels and can pass out monies and give people jobs and protection, we will continue to be splintered and eventually decimated.

[LomanBill]

[His employers have no right to punish him for expressing an opinion]

 

He lives in the UK - where the Eunuch-infested vestigial remains of the Roman Empire's state religion have been pacifying the sheeple for the pleasure of inbred royal perverts for 1000+ years; where the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom has no purview.

 

Isn't "Gay" just a new state establishment of religion?

 

Meanwhile:

"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--Thomas Jefferson

 

Got Natural Law?

 

 

Sex, Evolution and Behavior

By Martin Daly and Margo Wilson

 

 

Got Socio-Biological Fitness?

"Gay" penguins don't - not even in the San Francisco zoo:

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=San+Francisco+gay+penguins

 

Just liars doing what they do - as usual.

[Chickensoup]

I didnt say that. I said this:

This has been happening for years. Look at what happened in Calif. I remember 15 years ago an woman activist in a community had her husband’s job picketed because of her volunteer work in the community. He lost his job. No one want to or can take on the Leftist lobbies, black , hispanic, muslim or homosexual. There is not enough protection in the conservative community. No one will help you. Until we band together as a group and have angels and can pass out monies and give people jobs and protection, we will continue to be splintered and eventually decimated.

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[LomanBill]

>>There is not enough protection

“OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR”

Ex uno disce omnes.

[Chickensoup]

I wish, but I don't think that there is protection there anymore. You can have all the Constitution in the world but if it is not followed, people are not protected, they are harmed and we revert to feudalism.