Costco fires employee for denying K of C hall to lesbians

Lifesite ^ | Dec. 13, 2005

[Bob]

...the lesbian couple claimed they did not realize the [Knights of Columbus] hall was affiliated with the Catholic Church.

Stupidity like that would certainly be fatal if it were even remotely believable.

[MillerCreek]

I should also include here that to any who email COSTCO, be prepared for them to spam you in return.

Once they have your email address, they automatically (without your request, subscription, permission) use your email address to spam you with crud.

I contacted them about THAT and they were even more rude about "not spamming" me. As if spam was their right and privilege.

I'm not renewing. I'm going to go join Sam's Club and never renew COSTCO membership again...and that's after nearly fifteen years of membership and many thousands of dollars every year for nearly fifteen years to the place.

The organization has become some sort of communist party type social organization...I just google'd (another problem, I realize), anyway, I just google'd COSTCO + complaints (as I also did AMX) and found more than enough to dispoil any last shred of good will I may have tried to maintain about them.

There is NO EXCUSE for this news, these stories, what COSTCO has done here. Why didn't they "fire" the "lesbian/s" involved? I mean, seems to me the "lesbian/s" incited the issue, and, if they're going to resort to firing employees for exercising their religious faith and beliefs, there's nothing good remaining in the organization, nor any who do likewise.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Agreed...this happened to us in Georgia....one couple we knew went to one Methodist church and private Christian school after another to force their way in, change the environment and then leave the place broken and in shambles.....

[steve-b]

It's a property rights issue. Costco can fire him for any reason, or for no reason, unless the case falls within a specific prohibition in his employment contract.

[rzeznikj at stout]

The company had no right to do this. Period.

Just shows how far companies will walk planks to front the militantly gay factions.

I say this because the Mafia, the Mob, and other outlets of organized crime hid behind the activities of (and were often in direct collusion with) labor unions, most notably the Teamsters.

Since we're dealing with groups that more or less amount to a Lavender Mafia, Costco's actions are seriously comparable to the relationship between said unions and organized crime.

I know this is in Soviet Canuckistan, but if it happens here, let's use Uncle RICO against them. Or better yet, send Uncle RICO up north...

[Mrs. Don-o]

Letters of support can be sent to:

David Hauser
c/o Knights of Columbus Hall
2245 Fraser Ave.
Port Coquitlam, BC V3B 6G8
Canada

[kanawa]

ping

[Wallace T.]

Costco has a right to terminate an employee. I also have a right not to shop at Costco because of the company's pro-homosexual attitude.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Hit wrong button-wasn't finished revising my post.

Admin Moderator: Could you please be so kind and remove Post 45 from this thread--I posted it in error.

It should read:

The company had no right to do this. Period. Yes, we are dealing with at-will employment, but remember this is harassment and discrimination we are dealing.

While I'm not a lawyer, much less a Canadian lawyer, common sense seems to dictate that harassment and discrimination can supersede at-will employment "contracts."

Just shows how far companies will walk planks to front the militant homosexual-advocacy groups.

I say this because to fully comprehend Costco's actions, one should consider the example of the symbiotic relationship the Mafia, the Mob, and other outlets of organized crime hid behind the activities of (and were often in direct collusion with) labor unions, most notably the Teamsters.

Since we're dealing with groups that more or less amount to a Lavender Mafia, Costco's actions are seriously comparable to the relationship between said unions and organized crime.

I know this is in Soviet Canuckistan, but if it happens here, let's use Uncle RICO against them. Or better yet, send Uncle RICO up north...

[Mrs. Don-o]

Let's not just wrong our hands and say oh dear, oh dear.

Letters of support can be sent to:

David Hauser
c/o Knights of Columbus Hall
2245 Fraser Ave.
Port Coquitlam, BC V3B 6G8
Canada

(Sorry for the repeat: I wanted to ping this.)

[NorthOf45]

Ping

[elbucko]

Indeed. Since the 1960's we have permitted the mentally ill to walk among us under the protection of "tolerance". It's nothing of the sort, it's license.

[Peter Libra]

"Tolerance".

This is to digress on my part,but..... I had accessed on Google THE HOMELESS PEOPLES NETWORK. So far so good- why not? An article by Josh Brown of the Toronto Star, gave an account of - with tolerance in mind, certain statistics.

Three men in Toronto. Alcoholics and glue sniffers. One for over 18 years, constant trouble. The figures to society annually are quoted.

1. $112,000 2 .$151,000 and 3. $181,000 yearly. This includes threatening merchants to "pass out" in front of their stores, unless.....yes,money is produced. A farm is proposed for the poor dear souls.

It is tolerance gone mad.

[kanawa]

I used to have a problem with the professionally homeless coming up to my vehicle window,
at stop lights under the Gardner expressway in downtown Toronto,
with their little cup in hand.
Last few years it has not been a problem....for some reason...

;~)

[elbucko]

It is tolerance gone mad.

Actually, it's "good intentions". When Western societies began to let the mentally ill be treated on a out-patient basis, rather than be hospitalized, they unleashed the mentally ill to walk among us. Those persons who would otherwise have avoided the perversion that accompany the bi-polars and schizophrenics, were instead exposed to their self medications, illegal drugs. The drug epidemic began.

This has been going on since the 1960's when the Kennedy family witnessed , up close, the mental illness in Rosemary Kennedy and the failure of her surgical treatments. In the end, it was thought to be cheaper to just let the mentally ill shift for themselves. Some became famous like Lee Harvey Oswald, others influential like the Dunblane massacre perpetrator. He disarmed England.

Either way, the crazies now run Western societies, as in the Third World. We have let the "progressives" regress civilization.

[Landru]

"He is convinced the entire fiasco was orchestrated before the event."
"Not a bad hunch. The Gay/Lesbian legal organizations in the US are relentless and are out to test every possible permutation of local, state and federal statutes, regulations and are filling the courts with exceptionally contrived test cases (e.g., Canadian women "marry" in Canada, move to Iowa and then file for divorce once their residency there is sufficient for jurisdiction in Iowa.)"

You got the modus operandi down, *pat*.

"I think everyone sees where this is leading - and that only a Federal Constitutional Amendment will work to snuff this out."

Yea, no doubt.

Wonder how our "leaders" will handle the effort.

...with the Barney "My Boy Lollipop" Frank in the thick of it.

[George from New England]

isn't Costco CHINA owned anyway. No wonder they think like Communists.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"It's a property rights issue. Costco can fire him for any reason, or for no reason, unless the case falls within a specific prohibition in his employment contract."

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Provided that that's what the law says in that jurisdiction, that is correct. But here's another property rights issue for you: I've got the right to spend my money (which is my property) in whatever establishment I so choose, and can make my decision based on whether the establishment fires people for abiding with their religious beliefs.

[MEGoody]

A member of the Knights of Columbus who is in charge of renting the fraternity's hall for weddings and other events alleges he was fired from his day job at Costco for his involvement in denying two lesbians the facility for their same-sex "wedding."

Well, of course a place of business cannot fire an employee for enforcing rules at private organization to which said employee belongs. It is none of the employer's business.