Posted on 01/31/2011 10:23:57 AM PST by NYer
.- Members of the San Diego Fire Department have won a sexual harassment lawsuit against the city for being forced to participate in a local gay pride parade in 2007.
On Jan. 26, the California Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the city and instead upheld a lower court ruling in favor of the firefighters.
The move ends a several-year legal legal battle for four firefighters who lodged a complaint against San Diego for being forced to participate in the city’s gay pride parade in 2007. Although the firefighters objected numerous times to taking part in the event, the fire department disregarded their complaints and ordered them to dress in full uniform and drive their fire truck in the parade.
According to legal group Alliance Defense Fund, the four claimed they were sexually harassed through obscene gestures and cat calls at the event, which also featured displays of graphic images and behavior.
On Oct. 14, 2010, less than a week after hearing an oral argument, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District upheld a jury verdict ruling that the firefighters should not have been mandated to take part in the parade.
“We hope this ruling will end the city’s attempts to defend its act of compelling people to participate in sexually-charged events against their moral and personal convictions,” said Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco after the October ruling.
Charles S. LiMandri, the West Coast regional director of the Thomas More Law Center and an attorney with Alliance Defense Fund, noted in October that government “employees should never be forced to participate in events or acts that violate their sincerely held beliefs.”
I'm also blessed to have an excellent relationship with the principle and his teacher. While I don't worry now - I still keep an eye on things.
It's all of the other complications that stem from it. :-)
Just bein’ a wise-arse.
What about necrophelia pride? We can’t forget about those weirdoes.
lol.
exactly
/s
I don’t know how anyone could be so sick in the head that they would have sex with a corpse...
Who are you to say what their lifestyle choice should be?
//sarcasm
I highly doubt the city would have made them participate in a religious parade.
It’s OK with me if they have sex with someone who has been dead for a few days!(They probably won’t know if the person was black or white).
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Yay! One victory! An example of fighting spirit; these firefighters didn't give in or give up!
This is very good news.
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If only some of them were that restrained.
Who was the stupid idiot that forced them to be in the parade in the first place. You’d have to be a drooling moron not to realize that it was a really bad idea!
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