Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/04/2009 10:38:35 AM PST by markomalley
We’ve had it with sexism, racism, religious prejudice – all now considered utterly unacceptable in the workplace.
Will employees across UK Plc now have to start watching their tongues in case they are guilty of greenism?
After yesterday’s legal landmark ruling, “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief” akin to religion. This judgment means a company must not discriminate against someone because of their deeply-held environmental convictions. So no more jokes about the office hippy at the sustainable water-cooler then.
It has all come about because Tim Nicholson, 42, of Oxford, won the right to sue FTSE 250 company Grainger Plc claiming that his dismissal as head of sustainability was connected to prejudice against his fervent opinions on climate change. Mr Nicholson accuses senior staff of showing “contempt” for his green morals.
Examples of this alleged disrespect include the fact that Grainger’s chief executive got a staff member to fly out a missing Blackberry to Ireland and other employees refused his requests for data to set up a company-wide “carbon management system”. Grainger argues that Mr Nicholson was made redundant purely as part of operational restructuring.
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The state should stop establishing this religion, and quit forcing people to obey its tenets.
If it is a religion, then no man can be compelled by the State to obey it.
That tenet doesn't apply in the UK — where the Queen is the “Supreme Governor of the Church of England”.
If it is a religion, then we should soon hear from the ACLU about teaching this in school.
It is the true faith, there will be no outcry from the ACLU.
The EUSSR is coming down on Italian public schools having crucifixes on classroom walls.
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