Posted on 01/09/2012 7:16:38 AM PST by Morgana
TUCSON, Arizona, January 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Arizona college student who stopped in at her workplace wearing a pro-life t-shirt quit her job rather than obey a supervisor who ordered her to turn the “Pray to End Abortion” shirt inside out. Renise Rodriguez, a 21-year-old religious studies major at the University of Arizona, worked as a Girl Experience Associate for the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona in Tucson. When she went to her office on Jan. 3 during her off-duty hours to prepare materials for a meeting, she was told twice by a supervisor that if she planned to stay in the office, or attend a troop meeting, she would have to turn her shirt inside out.
“I started to get emotional because of the way I was treated so I left without preparing for the meeting and told my co-worker that she would have to get the stuff together,” Miss Rodriguez said. “As I was driving out, I called a friend crying and told her the story. I was so shocked at the way I was treated. After contemplating it for the rest of that day, I decided to write my letter of resignation.” Her letter did not specify her reason for resigning, but she plans to discuss it with another supervisor when she does her formal exit interview.
“It is the courage and conviction of young people like Renise that gives us hope that we are closer than ever to winning this battle and bringing an end to child killing in America,” said Bryan Kemper, Director of Youth Outreach for Priests for Life. “Young heroes like Renise prove this generation is a pro-life generation.”
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, applauded the young woman. “What does the pro-life movement need the most right now? It is not large numbers of people who believe abortion is wrong; it is a small, courageous band of people who are willing to risk and sacrifice everything to end abortion,” he said.
“Renise is exactly that kind of person, who has not only the right attitude about abortion, but the passion it takes to make the protection of the unborn our number one priority!” he added.
Noting the shirt Renise was wearing was designed by Stand True Ministry, a pro-life youth organization he founded, Kemper said, “We will be sending her several more of our pro-life shirts to help her stand up and be a voice wherever she is.”
The only way to deal with nazis, bolsheviks, or American socialist revolutionaries is head on,,,, refuse to obey their bullcrap orders, and expose them. REFUSE,, and go about your business. Make them call the police. Smile and tell them they will be viral on youtube tomorrow.
When the hell in this country did it become acceptable to tell someone to turn a shirt inside out because it mentions prayer? Who is this commissar who told her to do so?
“The Workplace is not the place to discuss politics or religion”.
Are you a droid?
I believe the article said she dropped by on her day off to pick up some things. Seems to me her supervisor over reacted. Should she have worn the shirt later at the meeting? Perhaps not, but while there on her day off to gather a few items?
With all due respect, perhaps she was trying to work from within to change the organization. Not real effective, given the dominant culture there (lesbos and baby killers) but a valid effort nonetheless.
“When the hell in this country did it become acceptable to tell someone to turn a shirt inside out because it mentions prayer? Who is this commissar who told her to do so?”
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In a right to work state you can be fired for any reason or no reason. Every employee, unless under contract, serves at the will of his/her employer.
She is not a hero for standing up. She is a fool for not knowing the organization she worked for better.
How do you think that the socialist have taken over all these organizations? From within. That is how they will be taken back..............
If she was doing work, it was not "her time".
“She wore that shirt to work, to elicit an response. She got one, now she’s crying about it.
No, we can’t encourage people not to kill their babies because that is against the “rules”.
Screw your small minded rules! Murder is murder.
“Oh, I’m sorry officer... I couldn’t save the child from being run over by the car because that would have required me to walk on the grass - and walking on the grass is ‘against the rules’!”
Morally idiotic.
>> hi, i'm hodar
>> welcome to the workforce
>>when you get a paycheck, you forfeit some of your ‘rights’.
>>If at any time, you feel your personal freedoms are worth more to you than your paycheck; you are free to leave.
>>Every employee, unless under contract, serves at the will of his/her employer.
>>And remember, the Workplace is not the place to discuss politics or religion.
>>I am hodar and I have been promoted.
Sorry you don’t like reality.
This is the way ‘real people’ live. We go to work, we do our jobs. Very few of us ‘enjoy’ the workplace; that’s why we are typically ‘paid’ to be there. We would really rather be doing something else, but we like to earn our wages.
But, hey; if the best you can do is personally attack me, I guess this is just in indicator that you have nothing worthwhile or anything dealing with any semblence of logic to debate with.
If you have a job; why not wear your “Abolish Abortion” or “Impeach Obama” T-shirt to work. Unless you run your own company and your customers never set foot inside your office; the odds are that you will be given the same choice this young woman was faced with.
You see, for us ‘Big Boys and Girls’; we understand that if YOU can wear shirts that offend others at work, everyone else can too. If everyone wears shirts that offend others; this increases difficulty in the workplace, alienates customers and contributes nothing at all positive.
So, do grow up.
If you have a job; feel free to break their 'small minded rules' to your heart's content. Maybe follow that up with a good "Screw you" too. I'm sure it will be as equally morally liberating, as it is financially devastating. Why, after your post to me; you would be a hypocrite to do anything else.
Who owns the office? Whether she was there on her own time, on her vacation or after her shift; she broke the Code of Conduct. She was warned, and refused to comply with the rules that everyone else has to live by. Now, she's enjoying the consequences of her actions - and crying about being discriminated against. Sorry, the rules that apply to her, apply to everyone. She was given a choice, and she made her decision. In retrospect, it was probably a foolish one.
Nope, I'm an intelligent person, who makes well above the norm salary-wise. I also know that in a "Right to work state", I can be fired for any or no reason at all. Thus, not being an idiot, I follow the rules. Perhaps you haven't been keeping current on the economy and the jobless claims.
Were you aware that we are in a recession/depression and that there are millions of unemployed? Did you know that because this young lady willingly quit, she's inelgible for unemployment insurance? Boy, she sure will be doing folks a lot of good now, huh? No job, in competition with millions of others for the next job. A work history that shows she stormed out and quit her previous job without notice, because she refused to comply with the company's Code of Conduct? So, how do you suppose she will pay for her car, apartment, medical, utilities, food and other living expenses? But, hey ... she wore a T-shirt and really showed 'them', right?
I agree. I sympathize with the girl's stance, but the office is not the place to voice them if you don't want repercussions. Now, if she can somehow show that other political/religious t-shirts were allowed and hers was banned, or if she were not violating a written policy, she might have an argument.
“If you have a job; feel free to break their ‘small minded rules’ to your heart’s content.”
It’s not about breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules, it’s about breaking man’s “laws” in order to keep God’s law.
Your attitude is that of a petty bureaucrat who will swallow any injustice for the sake of keeping in conformity to company policy.
Or are you bigger than that?
Let me ask you this... hypothetically speaking, would you “walk on the grass” to save a child’s life?
A little over-dramatic, huh? My teenage granddaughter is dramatic; but this takes the cake. Exactly, how many lives did that T-shirt save? (I'd wager that the number is exactly '0'). A message on a T-shirt does not really influence 'life decisions'; unless you are a moron. What it does do, is alienate and polarize people that are supposed to be working as a team. Seems relatively idiotic to me; if she had kept her job, and by using her personality to influence people, she could have accomplished what she/you and I all want. However, by making an adolscent 'scene' she now can be as influential as she wants to be as she begs for money on the street. As I indicated before; when you voluntarily quit your job, you are inelgible for Unemployment Benefits. Fundamentally, I also believe in "Free Will"; we will each be held accountable for what we say/do. For me to mandate a stance, I enslave you - which is fundamentally at odds with the concept of Liberty. We each have the 'right' to be as stupid as we want, and we will pay the price for our decisions.
I have a job, I have a family to support, and I also have been around long enough to realize that the workplace is not the place to discuss religion or politics. You see, we have no choice - we HAVE to be here. No one is entitled to create a hostile environment that others are forced to endure.
Now, if you want to create a hostile environment at your place of work (assuming you have a job); be my guest. However, I do have one minor suggestion for you. "Don't quit", force them to fire you. That way, you can at least have a hearing to determine your elgibility for Unemployment Insurance. It's a fraction of what you make if you have a job; but something is better than nothing.
So getting past the praddle about unemployment benefits and free will, let me ask you again...
Would you “walk on the grass” to save a child’s life?
(Because it sounds like you would not.)
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