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Supreme Court to hear case of Ohio woman who says she was discriminated against in workplace for being straight
the post millennial ^ | 10/6/2024 | Hayden Cunningham

Posted on 10/07/2024 2:07:39 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad

Marlean Ames, 60, filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleging she was passed over for a promotion and ultimately demoted because she is heterosexual. The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case involving an Ohio woman who claims her workplace discriminated against her by prioritizing her gay and male colleagues. Specifically, the Supreme Court will rule on the question of whether or not the woman needs to "make a showing in addition to the usual ones for establishing a prima-facie case" due to her being of the non-minority, heterosexual status. The ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that the Supreme Court is taking up had cited previous case law in saying that the woman "must show 'background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.'"

Marlean Ames, 60, filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleging she was passed over for a promotion and ultimately demoted because she is heterosexual. Ames began working for the department in 2004 and, after 10 years, was promoted to Administrator of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). In 2017, she was assigned a new supervisor, a gay woman who reported to Assistant Director Julie Walburn, a straight woman, according to the Daily Mail.

Court documents show that Ames applied for the position of Bureau Chief of Quality in April 2019, but after being interviewed, she was rejected. Ames claimed her supervisor praised her for decades of public service but "also suggested that she retire" following the rejection. The position was awarded to another gay woman, and Ames was later demoted by Walburn.

“Four days later, on May 10, 2019, Walburn and Human Resources Administrator Robin Gee called Ames into a meeting where they terminated her as PREA Administrator and gave her the option of returning to her previous position, which would amount to a demotion,” the lawsuit stated. Ames’ hourly wage dropped from $47.22 to $28.40. Her former role as PREA Administrator was then given to a gay man.


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: discriminate; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; ohio; scotus; straight
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This kind of discrimination is OK because it's all about DEI.
1 posted on 10/07/2024 2:07:39 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad
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To: BigFreakinToad

Just keep your mouth shut lady. No one will know. You can always lie.


2 posted on 10/07/2024 2:11:50 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BigFreakinToad

I thought, by definition, there can be no discrimination against white people, or straight people.


3 posted on 10/07/2024 2:12:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: BigFreakinToad

Seinfeld- They are gay? Not that there is anything wrong with that.


4 posted on 10/07/2024 2:14:09 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Mark

“it’s fine if that is who you are”


5 posted on 10/07/2024 2:15:26 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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GOOD!!!

I was just talking to a friend on the phone about DEI and mentioning how I’ve worked with the same company for 38 years and the employee assist team is full of morons who haven’t a clue because of DEI.

Ironically the situation i was referring to, which has been going on for a month, was handled in 10 minutes when a white guy, who’s experienced with the company, called me after my complaining emails to the company.


6 posted on 10/07/2024 2:18:16 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: nickcarraway

That same definition also claims black people cannot be racist.


7 posted on 10/07/2024 2:18:55 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Ohio Department of Youth Services

Scary to have more of the LGBTQPedo cult running it.

8 posted on 10/07/2024 2:19:37 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

grooming 24x7, 365


9 posted on 10/07/2024 2:20:53 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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To: God luvs America

a white guy? really?


10 posted on 10/07/2024 2:21:53 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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Ames claimed her supervisor praised her for decades of public service but "also suggested that she retire" following the rejection.

Sounds like she also has a case for age discrimination.

11 posted on 10/07/2024 2:22:02 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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I caught that too. Sounds like ageism to me.


12 posted on 10/07/2024 2:23:06 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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Sounds like Ohio juveniles are sent to a Turkish prison.


13 posted on 10/07/2024 2:31:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BigFreakinToad

yup- how about that....


14 posted on 10/07/2024 2:36:13 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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This could complete the worst case scenario for the professionally offended crowd... I don't see Roberts allowing that to happen.
15 posted on 10/07/2024 2:37:01 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Tell It Right

In fact, it’s frightening to have the LGBTQPedo cult in power at all!


16 posted on 10/07/2024 2:40:45 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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It almost sounds like Ames spurned the sexual advances of her new lesbian supervisor, and was ultimately punished for it.

She wasn't a member of the "correct" club.

17 posted on 10/07/2024 2:52:24 PM PDT by fwdude
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“also suggested that she retire”

probably age discrimination


18 posted on 10/07/2024 2:59:19 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.

What a joke! Affirmative Action has been discrimination against the (minority) of white heterosexual men for 50 years!

Just talk to white men about it.

Now it has increased to discrimination against white heterosexual women.

19 posted on 10/07/2024 3:10:25 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: BigFreakinToad

This might also be a case of trying to get rid of somebody getting too close to being vetted in the pension.


20 posted on 10/07/2024 3:16:20 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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