Posted on 11/07/2009 11:31:23 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
A manager at a Massachusetts retail store claims he was unjustly fired after he told a colleague he thought her impending marriage to another woman was wrong.
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I agree with you. This kid was stupid for bringing it up.
If she insisted on talking about her gay marriage he could have suggested she focus on her work and not her personal life during business hours. Didn’t this idiot read his assistant manager manual? The first 50 pages probably covered these issues.
He said she mentioned it several times to him. As a former employer, I can tell you that she had no business bringing up her personal life to a fellow employee that she did not know. Her raising this issue surely gave him the justification to express his personal beliefs on it. She should have been repremanded. It is apparent that she was trying to goad him into saying something. I suspect that if she had simply mentioned it in passing one time, he likely would not have responded as he did.
Actually,SHE’S the one that started it....
A Massachusetts man was fired from a national retail corporation because of his traditional beliefs on same-sex marriage. Peter Vadala was formally dismissed from his job as second deputy manager of the Brookstone store at Boston’s Logan Airport on August 12, 2009, after a supervisor reported him to Human Resources regarding an incident two days earlier.
As Peter described the incident, he came to work on August 10 and began his day normally. A female manager from another store was in the store and began talking to Peter about her upcoming marriage. When Peter asked “where is he taking you for the honeymoon,” she corrected him and said she was not getting married to “he” but to another woman.
Peter did not immediately react, but when the manager sensed Peter’s discomfort with the subject of same-sex “marriage”, the woman apparently continued bringing it up to Peter throughout the day, reiterating that she was getting married to another woman. Finally, after the fourth or fifth time she brought it up, Peter remarked that his Christian beliefs did not accept same-sex marriage. At that point the woman became very angry and bluntly told Peter that he needed to “get over it” and said that she would be immediately contacting the Human Resources department.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09d/vadala/index.html
Sounds to me like SHE was trying to provoke HIM!
“The US Constitution is a contract between the people of the USA and its government.”
Um, no. The contract is between the sovereign states and the federal government. That people were given rights was just a happy by-product.
And he took the bait.
And the private company took actions in accordance with its policy.
I know she did, and he took the bait. It could have just as easily been a corporate test to see what he would do. It doesn’t matter, he should have know better-period.
Is pretending to be married wrong?
His statement seems to accept the possibility of two persons of the same sex having a marriage, which is of course impossible.
Um, no. The contract is between the sovereign states and the federal government. That people were given rights was just a happy by-product.
The rights are confirmed in the contract as G-d given. The Rights are G-d given as identified in the contract.
So why is SHE not guilty of harassment?Isn’t SHE the one that was causing an uncomfortable atmosphere at work?Sounds to me like she’s a trouble-maker that this company would be better off without.Agree?
Is the ridicule necessary?
I doubt someone being harassed over his personel or religious beliefs is part of any corporate test.
No, one does not cause an uncomfortable situation by mentioning that she is getting married.
What ridicule????? Can’t a question be asked?
BTW Are you the thread monitor? Please... get a life.
He is being punished for standing his Christian ground when she provoked him. Nothing wrong there. The lesbies will abuse the current state of sin that our govt and courts endorse. satan wins for now, but this man will be rewarded in another way or another life.
The manager repeatedly brought the issue up to him. How come the employer rules don’t apply to her?
Well,it seems from all accounts that he didn’t say anything at first and tried to walk away and she sensed his being uncomfortable with the situation and she kept provoking him.That sounds like someone looking for a fight to me.I don’t know any company that needs that in the workplace.
Kneel before the Gay Zod! (Or as another poster put it “Kneel before the Gay Baal!”)
She should try doing that with a devout muslem...
You could sell tickets to that one!
And he took the bait.
And Brookstone in a private enterprise.
This situation is not different than if he had verbally objected to a co-worker’s interracial marriage.
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