Florida attorney Jennifer Vasquez represents several Christian employees in religious discrimination cases against their companies (Courtesy of Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda law firm)
Posted on 06/10/2023 7:42:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A software engineer fired for putting “Assigned By God” as the preferred pronoun on his employee profile has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his company.
Florida attorney Jennifer Vasquez represents several Christian employees in religious discrimination cases against their companies (Courtesy of Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda law firm)
Chard Scharf was fired by the software company Bitwarden, an online storage service for sensitive information. Scharf served as Vice President of Software Engineering at the Jacksonville, Florida, location.
The lawsuit alleges that Bitwarden violated Scharf’s Title VII rights against religious discrimination by allowing other employees to post preferred pronouns on their employee profiles, but prohibiting Scharf from using his preferred pronoun based on his religious beliefs.
“Had Chad set aside his religious beliefs and acquiesced to Bitwarden’s promotion of gender ideology, he would not have been fired,” Scharf’s attorney Jennifer Vasquez told The Epoch Times, “which means his religious beliefs were the cause of his termination.” Vasquez is with the Florida law firm Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda.
Neither Bitwarden nor its attorney B. Tyler White of Jackson & Lewis, responded to multiple inquiries from The Epoch Times about Scharf’s lawsuit. The company has not yet filed a response to the federal complaint.
“Bitwarden violated Title VII when it placed Mr. Scharf into a disfavored class by promoting its gender ideology, when it failed to approve his reasonable request for accommodation, and when it terminated his employment,” the lawsuit states.
According to the lawsuit, Scharf was repeatedly pressured to add his preferred pronouns to his Slack employee profile under his company’s “inclusivity initiative.” Slack is a platform utilized for intra company communication.
When Scharf added “Assigned By God” to his employee profile page, he was told to remove it, his complaint alleges.
Scharf, a Catholic, told his company he would not participate in its request to choose preferred pronouns because it was part of a gender ideology that went against his religious beliefs.
He told Bitwarden executives that it was his belief that there are only two sexes and “that gender cannot be changed, chosen, or manipulated,” and that it was the company discriminating against him for failing to accommodate his beliefs.
Vasquez said correspondence shows that the company pushed the completion of the gender field on his employee profile and not Scharf.
According to the lawsuit, two employees in the company’s human resources department complained that they felt harassed by Scharf’s religious statements.
Scharf was also reprimanded for not using the preferred pronouns in notes based on an interview he conducted of a job application whose preferred pronouns were different from their biological gender. In the lawsuit, Scharf claims he avoided using any pronouns during the interview and that he only used the applicant’s biological pronouns in internal notes.
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“Assigned by God” as his pronouns! It’s nice to see Christians standing up to the alphabet nazis!
I thought everyone got to pick the personal pronouns. So why not “assigned by God?”
I want that on a shirt, BTW: “Pronoun Assigned by God.”
For the Left, tolerance is a one-way street.
Dude knew inherently what they were cookin’, how to position himself perfectly to avoid compromising his deeply-held beliefs, and what he would do when what was inevitable, eventually happened.
Don’t forget hats and bumper stickers!
And the rest of us are harassed by the alphabet lobby by being ordered to accommodate the gender preference demands.
That is called; Setting Off a Dumpster Fire in Corporate.
I did four dumpster fires when I left, but only two heads rolled, that my remaining co-workers told me of.
My personal preferred pronoun is “your majesty”.
Just an FYI, every single company now in the whole nation uses pronoun and gender options when filling out resumes (which are all now mandatory online) and if you ever put “straight” or “he/him” or “would rather not answer” the software immediately puts you on the bottom of the applicant list.
This is also true of colleges: If you apply as white, the software smacks you down to the bottom of the school application list.
RE: If you apply as white, the software smacks you down to the bottom of the school application list.
Can I sorta “lie” ( like Elizabeth Warren ) and put down “Native American” and when discovered to be white after being accepted, then use “I identify as Native American” as my defense?
It is not a belief. A belief is something that you hold as true without sufficient evidence to convince others.
That humans only have two sexes is basic biology. It is not a belief but a stone cold fact.
Let us review.
Mammals have only two sexes.
There is no such thing as a hermaphrodite or transsexual mammal.
Humans are mammals.
There is no such thing as a hermaphrodite or transsexual human.
Thus endth the lesson.
If somebody wants one it’s “US Male”.
Retired but thinking about going back to work. Should be interesting....
I bet if he had picked the ‘Preferred Pronoun’ Servant of Satan, that would have been just fine with HR.
I hope he wins and make the company hurt real bad.$$$$$$$$....
Then with the money go after who fired him with with a civil suit.
I’m waiting for someone to select the n-word as a personal pronoun and make the liberals say it.
Just an FYI, every single company now in the whole nation uses pronoun and gender options when filling out resumes (which are all now mandatory online) and if you ever put “straight” or “he/him” or “would rather not answer” the software immediately puts you on the bottom of the applicant list.
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Yeah... and when I get a resume sent to me with pronoun and gender crap on it, it’s immediately deleted....
What about all the employees who feel harassed by the Alphabet Peoples' fetishes and beliefs? It's a two-way street.
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