[Cedar]

All workers in this country need to realize that they do not have to agree with nor sign the company policies forcing them to "recognize, respect and value" homosexuality.

Stand your ground!

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[JerseyHighlander]

It could have gone the other way, and we could have joined Canada on their strange trip.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping + Good, Good News - Rutherford does it again!!!!

Everyone working for companies having these sorts of pro-homosexual materials, rules, and so on should read this article carefully. Ditto if you have relatives or friends is similar situations.

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist!

(PS I have a friend who also won a court case (somewhat related circumstances, involving, I believe, freedom of speech issues and homosexuality) with Rutherford defending him.)

[supercat]

If a company wants to order employees to sign a statement agreeing that the moon is made of green cheese or be fired, it should have the right to do so. It would soon go out of business after all its good employees quit, but the company should have the right to adopt such an ill-conceived policy if so inclined.

[hford02]

The saddest element of this story is not even mentioned:
that ONLY ONE CHRISTIAN EMPLOYEE OUT OF THOUSANDS EVEN BOTHERED TO OBJECT.....
We empower these people by our silence. What they do to us is because we allow it.

[King Prout]

hrmn.

I have mixed opinion of this.

On the one hand, I am glad that the creeping "normalization" of homosexuality was given even so trivial a check as this.

On the other hand, a private individual, group, corporation, or organization should have the power to choose who it will hire and retain, rent to, or otherwise do business with, and on what grounds.

I believe this falls under freedom of asociation (with its corollary: freedom FROM association) under the First Amendment, as well as the unenumerated rights mentioned in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

Cases in point:
- The BSA should, by all means, have the right to exclude homosexuals from positions of authority.
- A Christian-based charity organization should have the unchallengeable power to refuse to hire or retain Muslims, pagans, heretics, and flagrant and unrepentant sinners.
- If a nationally dispersed and popular restaraunt chain wishes to hire and retain ONLY cute, busty, extroverted young women as waitresses... get the hint?
- To get utterly ridiculous for a moment, the Aryan Nation - were it ever to found a home-office - should have the unquestioned right to exclude minorities and their sympathizers from its payroll.

This has a variant bearing on this case:
If a company desires to hire and retain only poofs and their sympathizers, I cannot see where the government in any of its forms has any business interfering with this practice, and any suit brought before any court claiming wrongful termination on these grounds should be summarily dismissed.

In the same way, if AT&T wishes to employ ONLY the utterly PC-whipped, so be it.