Posted on 01/27/2015 3:58:58 PM PST by Faith Presses On
An evangelical Christian who said he was forced to retire from his job as a general laborer at Consol Energy/Consolidation Coal Co.'s mining operations in Mannington, West Virginia, for his religious beliefs was awarded $150,000 in compensatory damages last Thursday by a federal jury.
Senior Judge Frederick P. Stamp Jr. is also expected to determine other compensation owed to the ex-employee, Beverly R. Butcher, at a later hearing, according to a report in The Exponent Telegram.
The U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on behalf of Butcher against Consol Energy in September 2013 after the company refused to accommodate him when he told them that submitting to a newly installed biometric hand-scanner that tracks employees' time and attendance conflicted with his religious belief, according to Law 360.
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While I don’t think that a biometric hand scanner is the mark of the beast.....It was dumb of the company to insist on it’s use after the complaint by the employee.
There’s a number pad there for use of a pin if necessary.
you have got to be kidding me !!!
this guy is a NUT!
Does he have a drivers licence ? well .. that has a number!
Does he have credit cards? those have numbers!
Does he have a social security card? bank account? ect ect ect !!! This guy is assigned numbers ALL THE TIME!!
I would have thrown the case out and ordered him to pay the court cost to the company!
Many hospitals across the country, including my former employer, are using palm scanning technology for registration “verification.” I set up the system, and I can tell you that one week after the system was installed and testing complete, a “government agency” showed up at our datacenter to install a secured server rack full of servers and switches. We were instructed that no one had access to the rack, period.
This is growing.
I think the mark of the beast is a ball point pen when used to sign IRS tax returns.
PFL
“a “government agency” showed up at our datacenter to install a secured server rack “
For what purpose?
Theres not always a keypad. There was no number pad to key a pin in where my wife used to work. It was the hand or nothing. She left for other reasons. To be “safe” I guess he could have used the left hand. Its the right hand or the forehead that Revelation speaks of. He must not have wanted to take a chance.
When we’ve got preachers far and wide ignoring the plain time references of Revelation, teaching that those events which have already happened are yet to come, and reading the newspapers to see what the Bible means, what else do we expect but silliness like this?
We’ve got people preaching the same sort of thing right here on FR every day. Many fall prey to it, like the woman in this story. Because they don’t know any more than the preachers they listen to. The blind leading the blind.
You need to know your Bible before you go ballistic. It is not just the number. Revelation talks about the number being in the "right hand or forehead", in other words, the number is to be physically attached, written or embedded in some way into the body. That is why the strong opposition to the use of the biometric scanner.
Im glad they sided with the person on their right to religious freedom.
Mark of the Beast is and always has been your social security number.
They installed a server rack full of equipment. We were one of the largest hospital systems in the southeast and had just completed a multimillion dollar datacenter renovation. Not even our manager knew the deal. It was supposedly a request made by IT security and leadership.
Right. The court clearly stated that we don’t have to pay income taxes any longer as long as you religiously think they are part of the mark of the beast...
I am too.
I hope she uses that freedom to study her way out of her error.
Had one of them there work hand/thumb scanners for our comings and goings. Didn’t last long. Someone kept scratching the reading surface with a sharp edge (coin, ring). Expensive system but it worked out OK as the cost was covered by the taxpayers of California.
Duh... To route copies of the prints and associated identity info to the government maybe?
And you don’t, as long as you renounce your social security number and forswear the benefits.
Yep. A lot of people in jail found that out.
“teaching that those events which have already happened are yet to come”
Which past events are you referring to?
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