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If I were the attorneys/people in charge at Whole Foods, I wouldn't drop the counter suit.
You don't get to do something like this, drag it on for some time and through the media, then randomly apologize one day/essentially admit it was a lie and act like everything's fine and nothing happened. This guy should face real consequences. He attempted to damage the reputation of a company and a specific employee. Had Whole Foods not done a simple little investigation into security tapes and whatever else they looked into to attempt to verify this story/prove the guy wrong, and if they didn't trust their employee and stand by him, the poor guy could have been fired - wouldn't be the first time someone was fired or got into trouble over a customer's lies. He set up the scenario himself and wrote the slur himself, pretending it was the guy in the bakery. WF should keep their lawsuit if they can.
As a student I worked as a server at a busy ice cream chain for years and customers lied to my boss about us employees and what we apparently did or said countless times. My boss could often prove it by simply looking back at our cameras to see if what the customer claimed happened actually happened. People are scumbags.
I'm not moved or swayed by this apology.
Suing this loser would be fruitless waste of expensive lawyers' time. The "reverend" truly doesn't have a pot to pee in. He doesn't even actually have a church. He was using a public room in his apartment complex without permission is my understanding -- for the whole 1/2 dozen or so of his flock. Criminal charges, are more appropriate IMHO.
There are certainly consequences. I don't think this "reverend" has credibility with a single person here in Austin. Best bet for him would be to move FAR FAR AWAY and change his name.
I think it was actually a lesbian in the bakery who decorated the cake. Lots of positive publicity for Whole Foods in the end.
Very disappointing. Terrible as it is, I kind of hope this guy's life suffers in other ways due to his actions - maybe loses his job, church popularity falls, etc. Nothing too drastic, just enough for him to know that what he did was wrong and he does suffer consequences for his actions. He needs to learn a lesson. Sounds like I'm talking about a small child here but his actions weren't too far off.
He has no real job and his church has (HAD) less than 10 or so members.
They dropped the suit. I see why they did as they don't want to be the bully but, yeah, an apology isn't enough. Hopefully the members of his church ask for his resignation. Even for someone with a very low opinion of organized religion it's appalling behavior and I imagine church that allows gay pastors is under greater pressures to not behave immorally than a regular church is.
His church was an internet site, a Facebook page and maybe half a dozen people meeting at the rec room in his apartment complex -- without the permission of apartment management according to a statement I read.
Suing this loser would be fruitless waste of expensive lawyers' time. The "reverend" truly doesn't have a pot to pee in. He doesn't even actually have a church. He was using a public room in his apartment complex without permission is my understanding -- for the whole 1/2 dozen or so of his flock. Criminal charges, are more appropriate IMHO.
There are certainly consequences. I don't think this "reverend" has credibility with a single person here in Austin. Best bet for him would be to move FAR FAR AWAY and change his name.
I think it was actually a lesbian in the bakery who decorated the cake. Lots of positive publicity for Whole Foods in the end.
Don in Austin
Actually, yeah. There's an unfortunately named Open Door Church in Austin that appears to not have anything to do with him. Address is a PO Box and there's a beggars website: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/c...aiser#/updates
From the reporting I figured he was an actual pastor, although I suppose the license makes you that. I guess he figured this was a good way to gain publicity given that it's been three years and the church he's a "pastor" of doesn't really exist.
What he did is as much a HATE crime as what he falsely accused them of. I hope they take him to the cleaners.
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