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Massachusetts Man Says He Was Fired for Telling Colleague Her Gay Marriage Is Wrong
Foxnews.com ^ | November 07, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 11/07/2009 11:31:23 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta

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1 posted on 11/07/2009 11:31:24 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
Freedom of speech has ended in Obamaland!
2 posted on 11/07/2009 11:34:17 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

GOOD Grief..what is this world coming too!


3 posted on 11/07/2009 11:34:36 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

No individual nor business can suppress freedom of speech. Only government can do that.

This is bad, but has nothing to do with any freedom, much less freedom of speech.


4 posted on 11/07/2009 11:35:50 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Clearly, only relativists can be team players. /s


5 posted on 11/07/2009 11:35:52 AM PST by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

I hope everyone in New York and New Jersey is paying attention;as your governors are attempting to impose gay “marriage” on your states,too!


6 posted on 11/07/2009 11:38:00 AM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: freedumb2003
Please, fill me in on your observations.

BTW Are you a Constitutional Scholar?

7 posted on 11/07/2009 11:39:30 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
Sorry, I've got to side with the employer here. Employers pay employees to work, not make moral judgments of other employees. It wasn't in his job description to evaluate the personal lives of his co-workers.

I imagine if he had said to another employee, "Your Christian faith is wrong", most would be screaming for his head and celebrating his firing.

8 posted on 11/07/2009 11:39:53 AM PST by OldDeckHand (Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
Freedom of speech has ended in Obamaland!

No, it is just a private company following through on its company policies.

9 posted on 11/07/2009 11:42:08 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: massmike
I hope everyone in New York and New Jersey is paying attention;as your governors are attempting to impose gay “marriage” on your states,too!

The people of NJ just elected a 'new' Governor.
10 posted on 11/07/2009 11:44:20 AM PST by novemberslady
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People say all the time, that “your Christian faith is wrong.” Chances are your hiring manager won’t give a darn.

I’m on the side of the employee. If the lady asks him what he thinks of gay marriage, than she’d better be willing to live with the consequences.

Agree with the comment, “only relativists can be team players”. Word. Expresses the entire concept perfectly.


11 posted on 11/07/2009 11:44:23 AM PST by BenKenobi
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Those in so-called ‘gay marriage’ are guilty as sin and deep inside they know it. To assuage their consciences they seek outside approvals. Although Peter Vidala got fired from his job his promotion lies elsewhere but the gay marriage lesbo has her finite rewards at the moment——it’s as good as it gets for her destiny to darkness unless she repents of wickedness!


12 posted on 11/07/2009 11:45:42 AM PST by tflabo
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To: OldDeckHand

Good luck getting more than a handful to see the double standard. I gave up on that a while back.


13 posted on 11/07/2009 11:46:28 AM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: novemberslady

..but Corzine is trying to force it through before he leaves office.


14 posted on 11/07/2009 11:46:31 AM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland; freedumb2003
"Please, fill me in on your observations."

The First Amendment guarantee of free speech doesn't extend to private company employees. It's only designed to limit or prevent government from censoring speech of citizens. Companies are perfectly within their rights to limit what employees can or cannot say while they're working. It's well-settled law.

The Supreme Court, in a few cases going back to the late 70's, have even allowed the government to limit the speech of it's own employees, although their power isn't as robust as the power of a private employer.

15 posted on 11/07/2009 11:46:50 AM PST by OldDeckHand (Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

>>Please, fill me in on your observations.<<

The US Constitution is a contract between the people of the USA and its government. The only entities it recognizes are the Federal Government, the States and the People.

When you contract with an employer, you give up a slew of rights. If the employer says you can’t talk politics, you can’t talk politics. As long as you are free to leave the employer, you can reassert your rights.

If I had someone who worked for me calling for jihad and telling my customers the same, I had damn well better be able to fire him.

>>BTW Are you a Constitutional Scholar?<<

I like to think so. I have spent thousands of hours studying the USC and associated interpretations, writings and papers.


16 posted on 11/07/2009 11:47:52 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: massmike
All we can do is get rid of him.
Which we're doing...
17 posted on 11/07/2009 11:48:15 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

It ended a long time ago!


18 posted on 11/07/2009 11:49:29 AM PST by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: BenKenobi

If one employee had objected to another employees interracial marriage, the company would be within its rights to fire that employee.


19 posted on 11/07/2009 11:49:54 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
BTW Are you a Constitutional Scholar?

Well, we know you sure aren't.

20 posted on 11/07/2009 11:50:43 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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