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This story echoes 100% of what I've been saying. The whole issue with gay rights wouldn't stop with legalizing SSM because the real agenda is to force Christians into submission. Here is another case of a man losing his job simply because he dared to share his faith in the workplace. Since his faith made a gay coworker uncomfortable, well of course he must go bye bye. Nevermind that this guy worked there for 13 years and DID his job:
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It was not long after this that Routson was called into his manager's office and told that he was making an employee uncomfortable and would need to go home. He was told to report the following morning at the usual time, but then was called early the next morning to come in several hours later. Upon his arrival, he was terminated, asked to take his belongings and leave immediately. Routson is seeking legal counsel.
This is the type of intolerance that I keep seeing more and more against Christians. Why couldn't the boss have a open discussion between the employees and work out an arrangement that makes everyone comfortable? Nope, they wanted him gone immediately. If this is the new America then a Christian needs to be extremely careful with socializing in the workplace!
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I'll tell you again what I've been saying all along here: The gay marriage/gay rights thing has never been about gay marriage or gay rights. It's about finding a clever way to effectively criminalize Christianity. You can't pass that straight-out bans the exercise of religion, but what the secular left has decided it can do is to redefine "discrimination" so that anyone who talks about their faith to others is essentially guilty of it. Now all you have to do is make someone "uncomfortable" and you lose your job.
The author nailed it. The broad use of "discrimination" will be used to basically hogtie Christians in public or be punished. Don't like a coworker who doesn't support homosexuality? Just claim they are making you "uncomfortable" and watch them get kicked out the door!
This story echoes 100% of what I've been saying. The whole issue with gay rights wouldn't stop with legalizing SSM because the real agenda is to force Christians into submission. Here is another case of a man losing his job simply because he dared to share his faith in the workplace. Since his faith made a gay coworker uncomfortable, well of course he must go bye bye. Nevermind that this guy worked there for 13 years and DID his job:
This is the type of intolerance that I keep seeing more and more against Christians. Why couldn't the boss have a open discussion between the employees and work out an arrangement that makes everyone comfortable? Nope, they wanted him gone immediately. If this is the new America then a Christian needs to be extremely careful with socializing in the workplace!
The author nailed it. The broad use of "discrimination" will be used to basically hogtie Christians in public or be punished. Don't like a coworker who doesn't support homosexuality? Just claim they are making you "uncomfortable" and watch them get kicked out the door!
Maybe it is my computer, but the link doesn't work. So, I took to the internet to find a reputable source. I didn't. Instead, I found only Christian blogs/sites. So excuse me if I don't buy a word of it. From what I could find, Ray Comfort CLAIMS that a guy told him all of this. From what I have seen, there is no proof anyone told him that. There are also no news stories with the guys name in it.
Try fact checking your stuff first Jeffy. Find me a REAL article, an interview with Chris Routson, or some other proof. Otherwise, it looks like this is typical "woe is me" Christian "persecution".
Correction: Producers of the movie CLAIM he contacted them.
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The author nailed it. The broad use of "discrimination" will be used to basically hogtie Christians in public or be punished. Don't like a coworker who doesn't support homosexuality? Just claim they are making you "uncomfortable" and watch them get kicked out the door!
The key phrase here is "in public"; the employee has every right to practice his faith. I've worked in a shop where Muslims asked for a place to pray during their lunch break -- and got it -- so long as the organized activity was on their own time.
Intimidation -- the promise of paradise if one submits to someone else's dogma -- and eternal torment if not, is central to much of Christianity, and the more Fundamentalistic the sect, the greater the pressure to conform. It also tends to attract those who love to overrule any dissent, particularly when their own sense of the pragmatic is limited and a quote from Scripture can be used to dispose of any facts that get in the way.
In short, it offers a patina of nobility to the village's not-too-deep-thinking loudmouth; it's OK to bully, so long as you bully for God and Jesus -- in the tradition of Saint Paul, Calvin, Jerry Falwell, and the local Reverend Billy-Bob.
The employee had as much right as anyone else to introduce himself, and if the mention of his beliefs and values was short and simple, it could have been overlooked. The trouble began when he persisted in an arena where the offended party had clearly drawn a line in the sand, and the "poster boy" persisted in crossing it.
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Maybe it is my computer, but the link doesn't work. So, I took to the internet to find a reputable source. I didn't. Instead, I found only Christian blogs/sites. So excuse me if I don't buy a word of it. From what I could find, Ray Comfort CLAIMS that a guy told him all of this. From what I have seen, there is no proof anyone told him that. There are also no news stories with the guys name in it.
Try fact checking your stuff first Jeffy. Find me a REAL article, an interview with Chris Routson, or some other proof. Otherwise, it looks like this is typical "woe is me" Christian "persecution".
Correction: Producers of the movie CLAIM he contacted them.
How about an anti-Christian website that reported on it?
Shout bigotry in the workplace and they fire you. What's wrong with that?
In other words, Christians no longer have freedom of religion to oppose homosexuality anymore, correct? He didn't shout bigotry. He recommended a movie.
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