Office Depot accused of religious discrimination

Chicago Tribune ^ | 09/10/2015 | Manya Brachear Pashman

[aimhigh]

A Rolling Meadows woman has accused Office Depot of discriminating against her Roman Catholic faith after employees told her running copies of an anti-abortion prayer violated company policy.

Karen Denning, a spokeswoman for Office Depot, said company policy prohibits "the copying of any type of material that advocates any form of racial or religious discrimination or the persecution of certain groups of people. It also prohibits copying any type of copyrighted material."

"The flier contained material that advocates the persecution of people who support abortion rights," Denning said.

[aimhigh]

So, converting people is now considered persecution.

[miss marmelstein]

That’s insane. The only thing that shouldn’t be Xeroxed is copyrighted material. I don’t like Office Depot anyway. But Staples is far away.

[Old Sarge]

In before the “she-broke-the-rules” people in 5, 4, 3...

[Red Badger]

If it was an Islamic tract urging muslims to kill all the infidels, Jews and Christians I bet they’d get a discount........................

[Red Badger]

She’s not an employee, just a customer......................

[DaveyB]

...company policy prohibits "the copying of any type of material that advocates any form of racial or religious discrimination or the persecution of certain groups of people.

"So that is why we discriminate against people and religious groups, so that we do not allow others to persecute them for their religious beliefs -- that's our job" -- Karen Denning, a spokeswoman for Office Depot.

[mrsmel]

The left, which owns the megaphone of society, is tightening down on the marginalisation of Christians. We will be forced from the public marketplace and public square of ideas long before The Rapture. The Blessed Hope, thankfully, will protect us from even worse to come.

[Old Sarge]

Oh, even BETTER...

[MichaelCorleone]

Sadly, you’re very probably right.

[tbw2]

Office Depot is censoring the content of the products reproduced on their machines?

[2banana]

Bake the damn cake

Sign the damn marriage license

No copying for you!

[reegs]

I think this sucks, but hate to play devil’s advocate. I’m sure many on this board supported the “if the gays don’t like the policy of the Christian bakers, they could take their business elsewhere.” Or, “an owner should be allowed to run his/her business as they see fit.” If we’re going to be consistent, the woman should just say, “I’m sorry you feel this way. I’ll take my business elsewhere.” Just my $.02.

[Old Sarge]

The left, which owns the megaphone of society, is tightening down on the marginalisation of Christians. We will be forced from the public marketplace and public square of ideas long before The Rapture.

It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

[ichabod1]

Yeah, but going public with the story is well within her God granted first amendment rights, so good for her. Another case of revealing the enemy within.

[arbitrary.squid]

Office Depot has a copy service like Kinkos? I thought they just sold the machines.

[aimhigh]

I’m sure many on this board supported the “if the gays don’t like the policy of the Christian bakers, they could take their business elsewhere.” Or, “an owner should be allowed to run his/her business as they see fit.” If we’re going to be consistent, the woman should just say, “I’m sorry you feel this way. I’ll take my business elsewhere.” Just my $.02.

I suppose that argument would have worked if the left hadn't fined the Bakery $130,000. Now that the left is enforcing their rules, it's time to make them subject to their own rules.

[Ray76]

So company policy prohibits “the copying of any type of material that advocates any form of racial or religious discrimination”

but

company policy does not prohibit the act of religious discrimination.

Got it.

The mentality of these people is so warped.

[Nevadan]

So an anti-abortion prayer is the equivalent now of the persecution of pro-aborts?

It is a pretty safe bet that a pro-abortion prayer would not be perceived as advocating the persecution of those who value the lives of unborn children.

[Timpanagos1]

The policy places Office Depot employees in the job of arbitrary political censor. Under such a system, you can be sure that the censorship is not applied equally from store to store or employee to employee.

If just one pro abortion flier was copied at any time at any Office Depot, the plaintiff will win.

[Nevadan]

I couldn't access the article, but would really like to see the prayer that Office Depot claims advocates persecution.

BTW, I wonder if the Nation of Islam or Blacklivesmatte,r which both advocate hatred and murder of whites, could get their fliers printed at Office Depot. Actually, I don't wonder about that. Of course they can. Office Depot would be called racist if they didn't. And Al & Jesse along with the entire Democrat Congress, CNN, ABC, NBC etc would be demanding retribution. Some Office Depots would be burned down. Office Depot stocks would plummet as the store is boycotted. No active imagination needed at all to predict the future if Office Depot was even accused of racism.