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To: Maverick68

Whenever a Christian takes a stand on something they get fired.


58 posted on 03/13/2007 4:34:55 PM PDT by omega4179 (Unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay....)
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To: omega4179

> Whenever a Christian takes a stand on something they get fired.

Untrue.

In Banks v. Service America Corp., 952 F. Supp. 703 (D. Kan. 1996), the court upheld the right of two employees who continually greeted customers with phrases such as "Praise the Lord" and "God bless you." The employer, which ran the cafeteria in a factory, preferred "Hello. What can I get for you today?" as the standard greeting. Even though around 25 complaints were received, the court determined that it would not unduly burden the employer to let the employees use the religious greetings, basically because there was no showing that the customer dissatisfaction would significantly affect the employer's profitability.

A similar situation arose in Powell v. Yellow Book USA Inc., 445 F.3d 1074 (8th Cir. 2006), where a recently converted evangelical Christian felt obligated to expound her newfound religious beliefs to co-workers and to post religious sayings in her workplace cubicle. When another employee complained, the evangelizing employee stopped talking to that employee about religious matters, but continued posting religious material in her cubicle.

The complaining employee continued to complain, and the employer moved that employee to a cubicle farther away. In rejecting that employee's claim of religious harassment, the court ruled that an employer "has no legal obligation to suppress any and all religious expression merely because it annoys a single employee," and that the employer acted correctly in moving the complaining employee to another cubicle. Id. at 1078.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167904927807


59 posted on 03/13/2007 4:40:39 PM PDT by voltaires_zit (Government is the problem, not the answer.)
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