Posted on 09/09/2016 1:08:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Man would rather get fired than watch diversity video Thu, 09/08/2016 - 7:00am | Tracy Crane
CHAMPAIGN — A Social Security Administration employee who believes he shouldn't have to watch a workplace diversity video about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, because it violates his religious beliefs, fears he may lose his job because of it.
David Hall, 42, of Tolono has worked for the federal agency for 14 years, based in the Champaign office as an area systems coordinator, an information technology position.
In late April, Hall said, employees nationwide received an email from the agency about a 17-minute LGBT diversity and inclusion training video that they were told to watch at their work stations. Employees were required to certify that they had seen the video.
Hall said he is a Christian — "not anti-anyone or anything," but "for God, for Jesus" — and believes the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin.
So, he didn't watch it.
His supervisor gave him direct orders to do so — first on June 2, then again on June 24. Again, Hall refused both times.
As a result, an official reprimand was placed in his file — the first he has ever received, he says — and he was suspended without pay for two days, Aug. 15-16.
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Liberals are using feelings as their gauge of morality; if it feels good it must be good, if it feels bad, it must be bad.
That’s why they both reject rules based morality (religion) and demand that the person who is upset must be accommodated (because the hurt feelings trump rights of everyone else who is only annoyed or not emotional).
Transgenderism and demands to accommodate it are the ultimate example of this - that the mentally ill man who feels like he’s a woman IS one and should be treated as one, despite biological reality. The LBGT push in the workplace is another extension of this - respect is translated to “they can never feel bad, must always feel validated”. Hence the constant parade of cases at work, to push people into silence or endorsement of these extreme cases.
You nailed it! My thoughts, too!
Oops! I almost said, ‘feelings,’ LOL!
He got on his knees and prayed shortly after that, and 10” later a headhunter called. He is now a geotechnical consultant and would NEVER go back to teaching at a university.
Super! Thanks for the good news about him
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