What could go wrong?
Posted on 12/09/2011 6:21:03 AM PST by IbJensen
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, December 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A woman has been fired from a Macy’s department store for denying a man dressed as a woman access to the women’s fitting room.
“I had to either comply with Macy’s or comply with God,” said Natalie Johnson, 27, a former employee at the retail giant’s location in Rivercenter Mall, San Antonio. Natalie Johnson says she was concerned for her female customers, who she thought might be uncomfortable about having a man in their fitting room.
According to Johnson, on November 30th she witnessed a young cross-dressing man wearing make-up and girl’s clothing exit the women’s fitting room. She told the man “politely” that the women’s fitting room was for women only, making it clear that he was not to make use of the room again.
The customer, along with five companions, argued in response that Macy’s is friendly to the LGBT community.
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Johnson retorted that Macy’s doesn’t discriminate against religious beliefs, adding that it would go against her religious beliefs to act on a lie that a man was a woman.
“I couldn’t lie and say that he was a woman. I’m going to be accountable to what I say to my Lord Jesus,” said Johnson, a member of Tabernacle of Prayer, to My San Antonio.
Johnson says she believes that she was acting for the good of her female customers who she thought might be uncomfortable about having a man in their fitting room.
The group demanded to see the manager, who, siding with the transgendered person, pointed Johnson to Macy’s LGBT policy, which allows transgender persons to change in any dressing room of their choice.
The manager gave Johnson an ultimatum: comply with the LGBT policies or lose her job.
Johnson replied that the policy was against her sincerely held religious convictions. She was fired the next day.
“I was fired for standing up for what I believe in,” she said.
The conservative Christian law firm Liberty Counsel has decided to take Johnson’s case.
“Macy’s policy which allows men to use the women’s dressing room is fraught with problems,” the firm stated in a press release on Monday.
“Macy’s has essentially opened women’s dressing rooms to every man. The LGBT agenda has become the theater of the absurd.”
Matt Staver, Liberty Counsel’s founder and chairman, told My San Antonio that his firm is fighting for Johnson to help her reclaim her job and to change Macy’s policy.
“To me, it’s a liability waiting to happen. It’s just a matter of time that a man goes into a female fitting room and watches women undress or, even worse, rapes a woman.”
The American Family Association (AFA) is urging people to contact Macy’s headquarters to express “outrage at this injustice to female employees and customers.”
“Macy’s has done a great injustice by firing Natalie Johnson, whose first priority is the welfare and safety of Macy’s customers,” reads the lines of a draft e-mail composed by AFA that can be sent directly to Macy’s president, Terry Lundgren, and other key executives.
AFA says it would like to see Macy’s apologize to Johnson, to reinstate her position in the company, and to put safeguards in place that will protect all women customers from men who desire to enter their fitting rooms.
Terry J. Lundgren, President Macy’s 7 West Seventh Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 Ph: (513) 579-7000, or (513) 579-7764 Fax: 513-579-7555 E-mail: macys_execs@macys.com
Done shopping at Macy’s until this is changed. I am sick and tired of being told that abnormal is normal and normal is abnormal.
If you have a penis, use the men’s.
I never shopped at Macy’s and this make me more determined not to give them my business !
I’ve already responded to Macy’s CEO telling him that if the saleslady is not reinstated we’re crossing Macy’s off our shopping list.
My wife would be very upset if upon entering the ladies fitting room at Macy’s she’d find a homosexual imbecile.
Exactly. The most insightful quote in the article comes from the attorney of the group representing the fired Macy’s employee”
“To me, it’s a liability waiting to happen. It’s just a matter of time that a man goes into a female fitting room and watches women undress or, even worse, rapes a woman.”
I would hope Macy’s risk management people understand this and get the store’s policy changed.
So many Americans favor Macy’s policies, however, because they see themselves as “tolerant” and “open-minded.”
Public places will just have to add a third choice of restrooms:
LADIES
MEN
NOT SURE
Ignorant and soft headed is more like it.
The store's policy also needs to be changed.
By the way, I was trying some clothes on at J. Crew, and was disconcerted to have to put up with a young man sitting outside the dressing room while his girlfriend tried on clothes. I guess a lot of the stores have unisex dressing rooms. But with only women salespeople, how would this work if some sociopath was operating in the dressing rooms?
This will just result in stores eliminating fitting rooms. They are a big headache for them anyway. Staffing them, putting back all the clothes, and theft. Now this? It will be easier just to eliminate the problems by getting rid of these rooms.
Thanks so much for the info! I just fired off an email to these creeps. I’m also cutting up my Macy’s credit card.
I’m sick to death of gay activists pushing women around.
It will be interesting to see if the popular TX Workforce Commission denies her unemployment comp, assuming she has worked the necessary time to collect.
Actually, she was fired for standing up for ME! Macy's doesn't consider how I feel about trying on clothes or standing and having alterations being made and a man come in to the dressing area.
I go to certain stores to shop so I don't have to deal with the unisex dressing arrangements. Looks like Macy's won't get any business of mine...
But then only the guy from Idiocracy can use the third one!
I think the difference with stores like The Gap and J. Crew is that the dressing rooms are modernized. They are more public that Macy’s, very well lit and often with locks on the doors and floor-to-ceiling walls. Macy’s, on the other hand, are dimly lit and in the far reaches of the store - ripe for trouble.
But I well understand your discomfort having a young man sitting right outside your door!!
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