Posted on 06/10/2008 5:21:56 PM PDT by pissant
A gay man training to become a member of the lay clergy quit his job at a church college after he was bullied by his "sex obsessed" female manager, a tribunal has heard.
Stephen Price, 25, said he was constantly taunted about his sexuality by Mair Jones and that "every conversation" turned to sex.
The assistant church centre manager said Mrs Jones, 40, loved making double entendres about homosexuals and described herself as the "Queen of Innuendos".
Mr Price, who is claiming sexual harassment, constructive dismissal and sexual discrimination by the Presbyterian Church of Wales, said he was driven out of the residential post after less than a year.
"I was bullied consistently for no other reason than my sexuality, daily having to put up with either being referred to as a poof or having her talk of homosexuality or sex," the philosophy graduate told the employment tribunal in Cardiff.
"Every conversation would somehow end up being a conversation about sex. I asked for a big ruler and she responded: "Ooh, you like them big do you?" in obvious reference to a man's penis size.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
GUILTY!
Yeesh....GUILTY
That headline is ...not right... IMO of course
They should hire her to train other managers and drive all of them from the churches.......kudos to her!!
This woman is a hero!
You rock, Ms. Jones!
omg. two ends of the same bludgeon. SCOTTY! BEAM ME UP!
Attorney: Ms. Jones are you Homophobia.
Ms. Jones: No sir, Homo means fear of. I am Homo disgusted!
"Every conversation would somehow end up being a conversation about sex. I asked for a big ruler and she responded: "Ooh, you like them big do you?" in obvious reference to a man's penis size.
"Another double entendre related to an upcoming talk by a minister. Mair referred to this talk not as "Receive My Peace" but as "Receive My Piece."
"Mair delighted in telling me about the local landmark called Lord Hereford's Knob and about a village called Three Cocks and how funny this was," he told the tribunal.
"Everything imaginable that I would say would be repeated back to me as a double entendre.
"I was and still am shocked to have been referred to as a poof."
Lighten up, Francis.
You really can’t make this stuff up...
He’s already floating in his loafers
Woman has a wicked sense of humor, it sounds like!
The beginning of honesty is to call a thing by its rightful name. Sorry poof.
God Save The Queen! No not that kind. ;-)
Gives new meaning to the term "gay lay clergy".
This article reads like a Monty Python script.
That guy should never wear a pink dress it doesn’t suit him.
Oh, that’s the woman?
We Presbyterians, The Frozen Few! Personally, he’s a wimp and we didn’t need him as a church leader. I am opposed to gay clergy and would leave a church if he came to mine.
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