Posted on 07/02/2019 3:56:30 AM PDT by Cronos
Catholic News Agency Support CNA Custom Search Search Home » News » Europe Polish IKEA fires employee for Biblical opposition to pride event 6129 Free email newsletter IKEA. Credit: Gints Ivuskans / Shutterstock. IKEA. Credit: Gints Ivuskans / Shutterstock. Krakow, Poland, Jul 1, 2019 / 06:37 pm (CNA).- An Ikea worker in Poland has filed a lawsuit after being fired last week for posting Bible verses opposing homosexual behavior on the company’s intranet.
Tomasz K is suing after he was terminated from his position at the furniture store in Krakow.
Poland Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro has also asked the national prosecutor's office to look into the case.
The issue arose when employees were asked to attend a pro-LGBT event at the company.
In response, Tomasz said that he objected to the promotion of homosexuality. He posted two verses from Scripture: “Woe to him through whom scandals come, it would be better for him to tie a millstone around his neck and plunge him in the depths of the sea,” (Matthew 18:6) and, “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them,” (Leviticus 20:13).
Ikea then fired Tomasz. The company said in a statement that he was terminated for “using quotes from the Old Testament about death and blood in the context of what fate should meet homosexual people” and “expressing his opinion in a way that could affect the rights and dignity of LGBT+ people,” according to news.com.au.
Tomasz’s attorney, however, says he was simply exercising his protected right to express his religious beliefs.
Tomasz told TVP Info that his job was to sell furniture, not to promote same-sex ideology. When asked to take down the Bible verses he had posted, he said, “as a Catholic, I cannot censor God.”
“I do not think it was my duty. ... [I] quoted two quotations from the Holy Scriptures: about stumbling and about the fact that the cohabitation between two men is an abomination,” he said, according to TVP Info.
After Tomasz was fired, another employee also quit in solidarity with him.
“[If Ikea] promotes equality and diversity towards people, why was this situation where the Catholic expresses his opinion and is thrown out of work for it?” the employee said, according to the TVP Info.
A spokeswoman for Ikea holding company Ingka Group issued a statement to news.com.au saying that in the company’s view, “Using your religion background as a reason for excluding others is considered discrimination.”
“At Ingka Group we believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and be given equal opportunities whatever their gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, nationality, religion and/or any other dimension of their identity,” she said.
“Inclusion at Ingka Group means respecting our individual differences and creating a safe environment for all. Everyone’s views and opinions are welcome with the common goal to build a great place to work.”
Tomasz is represented by the legal group Ordo Iuris. The group’s chairman, Jerzy Kwasniewski, argued that it is illegal to censor the Bible, and said the move was oppressive to Tomasz’s rights.
“The insinuation contained in the Ikea statement is unacceptable and violates Mr Tomasz’s personal rights,” he said, according to New.com.au. “[It] can be read as motivated by prejudices against Christians.”
And don’t worry about it being in Polish, I can translate it.
Let's say Chick-fil-A posted about an event that supported a Conservative event and one of their employees posted a passage from a book about killing Conservatives as a response and that employee was fired. I'm guessing a lot of people around here would be cheering.
I take it that’s a no, that you have not seen a vertabim quote or a screenshot of what the guy posted in its entirety.
FWIW, I don’t assume facts not in evidence.
I’ll wait to see what the guy actually posted in its entirety before making a judgment about what he posted.
That’s not true. You may be referring only to the tourist spots of Stare Miasto and Kazimierz,
That’s fair. I guess perhaps you can grab a Polish bible and go to Matthew 18:6 and Leviticus 20:13, then? Translation is always a dicey subject and should not be assumed.
awesome
What do you expect from a company that provides written instructions for inserting which part into which hole (with pictures).
Poland needs to invade Sweden, and get some revenge.
Krakow may be my favorite city on the planet! Nothing like hearing the Hejnal for the first time in person.
My last refuge if demRINOs ever seize full control and Alabama falls.
Sorry to spoil your plans but you are in the last refuge. There is no other place to go.
Next Headline:
Massive fire seen across city as Polish Ikea goes up in flames.
The Poles are NOT kidding.
I hope the Poles bitchslap that stupid Swedish company. Long past fed up with F@ggot advocacy on the part of corporations and media.
In Warsaw, they tried to put up a big Rainbow in one the squares.
It keeps getting burned down.
No they don't. They are sick pervert degenerates, and God burned to death two cities filled with them, and the combined might of all the tribes of Israel destroyed the City of Benjamin because of F@ggots attempting to rape a man that visited that city.
Most Serial killers are homosexuals. Most child molesters are homosexuals. The queer community is a massive repository of sexually transmitted diseases, and they are responsible for killing millions through the AIDS epidemic. Number one cause of death among Homosexuals is suicide, and when they commit murders, they are usually exceptionally violent murders.
The Nazis began as a Homosexual social club, and the SA and SS were staffed almost exclusively with homosexuals in the leadership positions. Many of the worst most cruel and sadistic camp guards and commandants were Homosexuals, and I will not even tell you some of the evil sadistic things these homosexuals did.
Quoting the bible versus that explicitly say they should be killed is not only Free Speech it is also part of the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
They don't have a right to tell people they can't say what has been the norm for the last 2,000 years.
They are lucky we put up with their nasty pervert @$$es, and of course now they are showing out and starting to make people think perhaps they need to be re-institutionalized, as was the normal practice for most of this nation's existence.
I'm fed up with "Big Anus" trying to force the world to accept their perversion, and for those of you out there who are believers, this is exactly the sort of sh*t that Revelations has warned us about.
The degenerates are pushing all their sick diseased crap on the rest of us.
Don't care. There is no analogous book to the bible which would say such a thing. The bible is about religion and this is not comparable to some nut job scribbling out threats against conservatives.
Yes, some sh*twad quoting something that says conservatives, otherwise known as "Normies", should be killed, not only deserves to be fired, but needs to get prosecuted, as well as getting the sh*t beaten out of him.
This is what the world would look like when it's behaving normal rather than insane as it is now.
“The issue arose when employees were asked to attend a pro-LGBT event at the company.”
The employees were asked to attend (usually that means it is required or very strongly recommended by management that you attend). Would he have been fired for not attending?
I don’t see where he threatened anybody with violence. He quoted scripture that said the end result of unrepentant homosexual sex would be death and their blood would be on their hands (”their” in this context means the practitioners of said act). “Death” in the context of the scriptural quote means spiritual death, but that is neither here nor there because he didn’t state that he should be the one meting out the punishment or the end result, he was quoting scripture.
I think Ikea and a number of other people on the planet need some serious help with reading comprehension.
But while you have the right to your own opinion, you cannot have your own facts. "Most serial killers are homosexuals" is just not true. There is some evidence that homosexuals MAY be overrepresented as a percentage of murderers, but they are definitely not in the majority of killers as a whole.
Nor did the vast majority of the nation for the vast majority of this nation's existence. You only believe it because you have been propagandized into believing it. You have been exposed to this currently dominant viewpoint long enough to embrace it.
You are being moved by social dynamics of which you are probably not even aware. Virtually everyone where you live supports what you think, and social peer pressure is a powerful force for creating conformity.
"Most serial killers are homosexuals" is just not true. There is some evidence that homosexuals MAY be overrepresented as a percentage of murderers, but they are definitely not in the majority of killers as a whole.
While it is difficult to prove "most", it is clearly not difficult to prove that this 1.8% of the population accounts for far more murders and molestations than it's percentage of the population would warrant.
I've actually gone to the trouble to look up lists of the most famous serial killers, and the vast majority of them are homosexual. They are among the most prolific and most heinous.
But you are right. There is no sense in me antagonizing you further with my opinion on this group of people.
I shall let you be and I wish you well.
But IKEA is run by a Swedish holding group, mentioned in the article. Sweden is ultra leftwing.
The U.N. promotes it. Such promotion has always been an aim of the communist party to destabilize nations and make the citizens obey their "betters" in the elites instead of God.
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