Massachusetts Man Says He Was Fired for Telling Colleague Her Gay Marriage Is Wrong

Foxnews.com ^ | November 07, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Freedom of speech has ended in Obamaland!

[rovenstinez]

GOOD Grief..what is this world coming too!

[freedumb2003]

No individual nor business can suppress freedom of speech. Only government can do that.

This is bad, but has nothing to do with any freedom, much less freedom of speech.

[sthguard]

Clearly, only relativists can be team players. /s

[massmike]

I hope everyone in New York and New Jersey is paying attention;as your governors are attempting to impose gay “marriage” on your states,too!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Please, fill me in on your observations.

BTW Are you a Constitutional Scholar?

[OldDeckHand]

Sorry, I've got to side with the employer here. Employers pay employees to work, not make moral judgments of other employees. It wasn't in his job description to evaluate the personal lives of his co-workers.

I imagine if he had said to another employee, "Your Christian faith is wrong", most would be screaming for his head and celebrating his firing.

[trumandogz]

Freedom of speech has ended in Obamaland!

No, it is just a private company following through on its company policies.

[novemberslady]

I hope everyone in New York and New Jersey is paying attention;as your governors are attempting to impose gay “marriage” on your states,too!

The people of NJ just elected a 'new' Governor.

[BenKenobi]

People say all the time, that “your Christian faith is wrong.” Chances are your hiring manager won’t give a darn.

I’m on the side of the employee. If the lady asks him what he thinks of gay marriage, than she’d better be willing to live with the consequences.

Agree with the comment, “only relativists can be team players”. Word. Expresses the entire concept perfectly.

[tflabo]

Those in so-called ‘gay marriage’ are guilty as sin and deep inside they know it. To assuage their consciences they seek outside approvals. Although Peter Vidala got fired from his job his promotion lies elsewhere but the gay marriage lesbo has her finite rewards at the moment——it’s as good as it gets for her destiny to darkness unless she repents of wickedness!

[TheZMan]

Good luck getting more than a handful to see the double standard. I gave up on that a while back.

[massmike]

..but Corzine is trying to force it through before he leaves office.

[OldDeckHand]

"Please, fill me in on your observations."

The First Amendment guarantee of free speech doesn't extend to private company employees. It's only designed to limit or prevent government from censoring speech of citizens. Companies are perfectly within their rights to limit what employees can or cannot say while they're working. It's well-settled law.

The Supreme Court, in a few cases going back to the late 70's, have even allowed the government to limit the speech of it's own employees, although their power isn't as robust as the power of a private employer.

[freedumb2003]

>>Please, fill me in on your observations.<<

The US Constitution is a contract between the people of the USA and its government. The only entities it recognizes are the Federal Government, the States and the People.

When you contract with an employer, you give up a slew of rights. If the employer says you can’t talk politics, you can’t talk politics. As long as you are free to leave the employer, you can reassert your rights.

If I had someone who worked for me calling for jihad and telling my customers the same, I had damn well better be able to fire him.

>>BTW Are you a Constitutional Scholar?<<

I like to think so. I have spent thousands of hours studying the USC and associated interpretations, writings and papers.

[novemberslady]

All we can do is get rid of him.
Which we're doing...

[CyberAnt]

It ended a long time ago!

[trumandogz]

If one employee had objected to another employees interracial marriage, the company would be within its rights to fire that employee.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

BTW Are you a Constitutional Scholar?

Well, we know you sure aren't.