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Office Depot Defends Employees’ Refusal To Make Copies Of Anti-Abortion ‘Hate Material’[Boycott]
CBSLA.com/AP ^ | September 11, 2015 | AP Staff

Posted on 09/12/2015 8:02:53 AM PDT by Rockitz

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (CBSLA.com/AP) — A suburban Chicago woman is accusing Office Depot of religious discrimination, saying employees told her that making copies of an anti-abortion prayer violated company policy.

Last month, Maria Goldstein, a Roman Catholic, asked employees at an Office Depot location in Schaumburg, Ill., to make 500 copies of “A Prayer for Planned Parenthood”, the Associated Press reported.

The prayer was composed by the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of the anti-abortion group Priest for Life. It calls on God to “Bring an end to the killing of children in the womb, and bring an end to the sale of their body parts. Bring conversion to all who do this, and enlightenment to all who advocate it.”

The prayer also includes statistics about abortion in the U.S. and decries “the evil that has been exposed in Planned Parenthood and in the entire abortion industry.”

Company spokeswoman Karen Denning tells the Chicago Tribune that Office Depot prohibits the copying of material that advocates “the persecution of certain groups of people,” among other criteria. She says the flier “contained material that advocates the persecution of people who support abortion rights.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; officedepot; prolife
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Boycott Office Depot.
1 posted on 09/12/2015 8:02:53 AM PDT by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz

She can bring them to my office and I will print them until the machine breaks down.


2 posted on 09/12/2015 8:04:28 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Rockitz

A Boca Raton Florida company. Boca Raton is home to the slimest vile liberal scumbags in the entire country!


3 posted on 09/12/2015 8:08:02 AM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: Rockitz

“advocates persecution? “ Not in the PDF; it says “close down death camps” but never out of context of legally cutting off funds or perhaps other divine intervention I see.


4 posted on 09/12/2015 8:10:07 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Rockitz

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”

Found this in a black book, in a drawer, in a motel room.


5 posted on 09/12/2015 8:11:39 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Rockitz

Sorry but you can’t deny service to anyone anymore.

It’s the new rule.


6 posted on 09/12/2015 8:15:39 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Silly, you missed the asterisk and fine print.


7 posted on 09/12/2015 8:18:06 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Rockitz

Done. When you serve the general public like Office Depot does, describing the beliefs of half your customers as “hate” is really, really stupid. A much more honest position would be to say that they are strong supporters of abortion on demand, and their beliefs prevent them from serving customers to help them spread the pro-life message.


8 posted on 09/12/2015 8:19:27 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: Rockitz

Isn’t this much the same as, say, a Christian bakery refusing to bake a cake for a same sex marriage?


9 posted on 09/12/2015 8:24:36 AM PDT by randita (...Our First Lady is a congenital liar - William Safire, 1996)
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To: Rockitz

Just imagine what would happen to them if they refused to print a homosexual flyer, or a BlackLiesMatter flyer, or an Islamic flyer.


10 posted on 09/12/2015 8:24:37 AM PDT by euram
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To: unixfox

People must see abortion if they do not imagine it. We ar paying for it. It is legal in our country. It is promoted by our government and by our democrat politicians and enabled by GOP e

We the people run this country. We are feeling the consequences of allowing this. We have to stp it. It’s hard to stop it against the sociopaths who promote it whe people will not see it for what it is or imagine it or just accept it for what it is.

If it’s so good and so important then look at it

If not then at least don’t prevent others from seeing it.

Which was the intent of the Home Depot

They probably have the right to not have to print it.

However that would be no different from someone in the bakery business not wanting to get involved with gay marriage.

Same deal seems to me


11 posted on 09/12/2015 8:29:16 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Rockitz
This makes my blood boil!

I use Office Depot (and Office Max, same company) for many, many things. Eff 'em!

I have other options for my print needs.

12 posted on 09/12/2015 8:30:58 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: winner3000

Office Depot has no right to peruse your “mail”.


13 posted on 09/12/2015 8:31:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Rockitz; All

The report I heard this (9/12) am over Chicago’s WGN radio station. Is that they recanted that decision and were going to print up the piece that a local employee questioned and refused to print up at no charge.


14 posted on 09/12/2015 8:34:57 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
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Just read that too. Office Depot changes its tune now.

GOOD!!!

15 posted on 09/12/2015 8:39:25 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Rockitz

This is worse than I originally thought.

“the persecution of certain groups of people,”

The attorney is saying anything that disagrees with the pro-abortion people is “persecution”.


16 posted on 09/12/2015 8:49:38 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Rockitz

They have apologized.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/12/illinois-office-depot-apologizes-to-woman-over-anti-abortion-fliers/


17 posted on 09/12/2015 8:54:52 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

That was only because they were getting hit in the pocketbook.


18 posted on 09/12/2015 8:57:49 AM PDT by sport
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To: Rockitz

Office Depot is dead to me


19 posted on 09/12/2015 9:02:00 AM PDT by dila813
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To: Rockitz
OK folks ... here it is ....

The public schools have been at it for over 40 years

They've thoroughly screwed up the mama's and the papa's of

The kids that are hired by all these subversive corporations

which prove to be more screwed up than their mama's and papa's

and they are buying franchises and etcetera's

hiring hippies n' n###### n' queers, Oh My !


Office Depot was allowed by the greater majoriy of America to just go ahead and be as weird as they wanted to be


Green hair, orange shoes and more steel in your face than the Brooklyn Bridge ..... "Will y'do what 'cher told ?"

Yessir .... (they know enough to talk like that once or twice in their lifetime)


Start Monday

The sad, honest truth

20 posted on 09/12/2015 9:08:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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