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Office Depot Apologizes to Woman Over Anti-Abortion Fliers
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| 9/11/15
Posted on 09/11/2015 8:40:30 PM PDT by markomalley
Edited on 09/11/2015 8:46:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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The CEO of Office Depot apologized Friday to a suburban Chicago woman who said the company discriminated against her religious beliefs when its employees told her that making copies of an anti-abortion prayer violated company policy.
Maria Goldstein, who is Roman Catholic, asked the Office Depot in Schaumburg last month to make 500 copies of "A Prayer for Planned Parenthood."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; chicago; corporateliberalism; deathpanels; doublestandard; homofascism; homosexualagenda; illinois; mariagoldstein; obamacare; obamunism; officedepot; plannedparenthood; stemexpress; zerocare
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Office Depot has the right to say what may be duplicated and for whom the duplicating is done, just as a bakery should be able to determine what kind of cakes they bake and for whom they bake them.
Apparently the Office Depot CEO did not want to have the company see the same fate as JC Penney...
To: markomalley
Trying to understand your post?
The woman is prolife......
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posted on
09/11/2015 8:47:28 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
(If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
To: markomalley
Office Depot has the right to say what may be duplicated and for whom the duplicating is done, just as a bakery should be able to determine what kind of cakes they bake and for whom they bake them. Well, either that, or they don't have the right...just like the bakery.
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posted on
09/11/2015 8:48:18 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
To: markomalley
As a prolife activist Catholic, I agree with you: private property rights are sacrosanct.
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posted on
09/11/2015 8:48:30 PM PDT
by
jobim
To: markomalley
Office Depot is outted.. as democrat/rino controlled..
What a stupid move to even mention this subject pro or con..
FROM the TOP..
Ideologues run Office Depot..
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posted on
09/11/2015 8:50:02 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: markomalley
And I have the right not to bring my business to them. And I won’t.
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posted on
09/11/2015 9:09:09 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(Liberals need to be caged for the safety of human beings. (FReeper Norm Lenhart))
To: markomalley
I must respectfully differ, Brother - political speech is not a wedding cake.
It is not Staples' rights that are in question. They provide, through print services, a public forum for dissemination of information, protected under the First Amendment.
I may not like what someone has to say, but I cannot stop them from saying it.
But I don't have to cook the hors d'ouevres for their victory party.
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
09/11/2015 9:16:18 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
09/11/2015 9:16:39 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: markomalley
I thought Staples was buying out Office Depot. We quit buying supplies for our office at Office Depot last year when they launched an anti-bullying programs in schools, particularly to protect LGTB students. My dil said she went into Office Depot recently to buy some printer toner which she needed in an emergency and their stock of supplies was pretty sparse and not much variety.
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posted on
09/11/2015 9:20:27 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: ConorMacNessa
I don’t see how what is said on a cake is any more or less a freedom of speech issue than what is said with a copying machine. They both involve private businesses, and either do or do not have the right to determine what they produce.
The First Amendment involves limiting the government’s right to squelch speech—something quite different.
To: markomalley
I don't think the purported parallel between the cake and the flyer is valid.
Baking a cake or doing the floral arrangements is a direct participation in the event. Printing the flyers does not indicate approval nor does it require acquiescence in the sentiments. It merely means one copies the flyers.
It sounds to me like the particular store she went to either had a manager or staffer who misunderstood his authority or was just plain anti-ProLife.
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posted on
09/11/2015 9:29:18 PM PDT
by
Robwin
To: Robwin
I will avoid them for a while. I will drop them a line and tell them why.
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posted on
09/11/2015 9:33:32 PM PDT
by
healy61
To: ConorMacNessa
You contradicted yourself. The prolife women cannot be stopped but Depot doesn’t have to do the cooking either.
They do not provide a public forum because they are a private business just like the baker. You 1st Amendment rights does not guarantee you a forum.
What Depot did was despicable but I support their right to do it.
To: markomalley
Its a private business and they should be able to choose with whom they do business.Because of their position I choose never to darken the door ever again.
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posted on
09/11/2015 11:13:40 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Shimmer1
I made my protest call.
Probably many on FR did also.
It is not just us...they FEAR THE COMING RIGHTEOUS
STORM. ...pray that Jehovah forgives OUR COORPORATE
(National) sin and that HE still has us in HIS PLAN.
IF we are a part of Jehovah’s Plan, Golith is a dead man walking .
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posted on
09/11/2015 11:27:57 PM PDT
by
DavidLSpud
("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
To: 9YearLurker
“I dont see how what is said on a cake is any more or less a freedom of speech issue than what is said with a copying machine.”
Then let me help you out:
On the wedding cake, a human being called a baker has to write the words on the cake, and those words may be a declaration of something that runs counter to the tenets of their faith.
On a copying machine, the machine — which has no rights at all, nor any convictions to offend — has to reproduce pages of text that you brought in pre-done. NOBODY at Office Depot is being forced to produce text that includes any sort of declaration(s) they object to.
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posted on
09/11/2015 11:30:47 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
To: Grams A
Office Depot and Office Max Merged.
Didn’t hear anything about Staples.
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posted on
09/11/2015 11:33:03 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(With Friends like the GOPe, who needs Democrats?)
To: HKMk23
I am having trouble comprehending your logic.
I have a private eneterprise. Whatever takes place in my private enterprise is up to my discretion. If someone comes in to make flyers promoting an Islamist Jihad, I retain the right to reject that business. If I am a corporate Liberal Progressive entity, I retain the right to reject the business of Christians. At least in my definition of property rights.
There used to be a sign: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE BUSINESS TO ANYONE (That is property rights freedom).
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posted on
09/11/2015 11:44:42 PM PDT
by
jobim
To: DavidLSpud
I made my call. I calmly stated that they had the right to turn down business.
I had the right to avoid their company, and I would be doing so.
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posted on
09/11/2015 11:51:26 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(Liberals need to be caged for the safety of human beings. (FReeper Norm Lenhart))
To: FreedomNotSafety
So you support the limitation of speech by operations afforded tax exemptions by virtue of what that operation prints?
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posted on
09/12/2015 12:09:41 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
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