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Posted on 11/30/2012 7:15:31 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
RICHMOND, Va. — VCU women’s volleyball coach James Finley is fighting to get his job back after he says he was fired because he is gay.
Finley, 52, has filed a complaint with VCU’s Office for Institutional Equity. University spokesperson Pamela D. Lepley said an investigation is being conducted and must be completed within 45 days.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What does him being happy have to do with him getting fired?
I just don’t believe this.
He is playing thr Fag card.
I'm thinking he should be glum.
lol.
Was his contract over?
VCU... Virginia CHRISTIAN University?
Virginia Commonwealth University.
25-6 and he’s fired? That’s B.S. Hope the school gets hit hard. That is not a firing offense.
Mayhap he was too happy. ;-)
Contract expires December 31.
let him go when the contract is over
From his attributed quotes in the article, it appears that the poor dears "feelings" are hurt.
Hell hath no fury...and all that.
Well there would be some discussion as who their legs in the air but I digress....the girls must be heartbroken, not only do they lose a volleyball coach but a hair and couture consultant.
has their legs in the air (geez)
It’s one thing to not renew him when his contract is up, but it looks baffling to some of us that have been in athletic administration at the DI level for a long time (I spent almost ten years at a Big Ten and Big East schools in Intercollegiate Athletics).
The school doesn’t look good in this considering the guy’s record this year. I would like to know what his career record was at the school.
Says who?
Before the far left began to rewrite all rules, it certainly was.
Maybe its like the way publik skoolz would quietly get rid of teachers who sexually abused kids by transferring them to another school system and city. Happened all the time, probaably still happening.
There could be a lot of problems with this guy that has nothing to do with the scores.
Do us a favor and take your pro-fag crap somewhere else. This guy is sick in the body and mind.
What if he was black or white or a golfer or a tea pot collector or a Nascar fan? Just WTF?
“It’s one thing to not renew him when his contract is up”
According to CNN that’s exactly what they did. They told him they were not going to renew his contract.
Before this really good year, his record was 126-106. The school wanted to go in a new direction.
Chances are, his replacement will be a lesbian.
I know??? That is really a queer twist to this story, isn't it?
The last paragraph of his bio on VCU’s web site:
Finley earned a degree in range science from Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas in 1983. He has one son, 30-year-old Carlton, who resides in Richmond and works at Richmond Ford. Finley and John Sternlicht were married in 2010 and reside in Richmond with John’s youngest son Jeremy. John’s other son David graduated from Washington and Lee in 2011 and resides in Arlington, Va.
http://www.vcuathletics.com/information/directory/bios/james_finley
If this couldn't cure him, nothing will.
>> 25-6 and he’s fired? That’s B.S. Hope the school gets hit hard. That is not a firing offense.
So you believe the coach is being persecuted? And you’re familiar with the circumstances that led to non-renewal?
>>So, he is the wife?<<
He not the spiker, he the spikee.
He is claiming to be married. But the Commonwealth does not recognize same sex marriage. Maybe the school has had to deal with issues with this person challenging everything all the time. Better to be rid of a person who would rather live by the laws of say Massachusetts.
“That is not a firing offense.”
Misleading headline. His contract was not renewed. That is not ‘being fired.’
Keep that in mind when you hire new employees.
It is remotely possible that the volleyball coach was fired just for being homosexual, but in almost all of these "Some bad thing happened JUST BECAUSE HE WAS GAY!" stories, Matthew Shepard etc., the facts fail to support the allegation.
Whether this guy's story is true or false, VCU's insurers will probably have to shell out tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay him off. This is just the 2012 reality, and employers fail to take note of it at their peril.
I would prefer to live in a society of individuals, not members of oppressor/victim groups, where firing a gay man would pose no more risk to a business than firing a straight man. I don't live in such a society.
it embraces diversity, and how it always made the coach, his husband, John Sternlicht, and their three sons feel “welcome, not tolerated.”
That is just SICK!
Ever notice how these old perverts alwasy have male children?
25-6 and he’s fired? That’s B.S. Hope the school gets hit hard. That is not a firing offense
Really? Ask Alex Smith of the 49er’s about that!
25-6 and he’s fired? That’s B.S. Hope the school gets hit hard. That is not a firing offense
Really? Ask Alex Smith of the 49er’s about that!
“My husband and I were talking about it, and we can’t just walk away.” So, he is the wife?
If this couldn’t cure him, nothing will.
LOL! I think a straight man may lose concentration coaching so many pretty gals.
Chances are, his replacement will be a lesbian.
And do not be surprised that it is...
Not sure if his sexuality is the reason for his non-renewal...but I suspect that his gender may be the real reason
Guaranteed if this was a lesbian, she would have been offered a new contract after a 25-6 season and overall record
One of the biggest issues in womens sports is that the “Lesbian Left” does not want men coaching the womnen’s college teams. This has been an issue in college basketball for years, and it is also in other womens sports
Alex Smith wasn’t fired, he still has a job and is earning his paycheck. I see no comparison at all to your analogy.
How is being gay, or black, or straight, or blonde, or any other trait about someone a firing offense?
He is a volleyball coach who is supposed to win volleyball games, graduate players, etc. As long as he isn’t doing anything that forces his lifestyle on someone then no way he should be fired.
Look, if he was Christian and a volleyball coach and fired for that we would all be going crazy..rightly so. There is no difference.
You wonder why we keep losing elections.
It has nothing to do with being “pro-fag” as you state. It’s not my lifestyle and I wouldn’t choose it for anyone else. That being said, I believe someone’s faith, lifestyle, color of their skin, etc should not get in the way of one’s ability to do their craft and certainly not be the reason one is employed or not.
I also don’t believe being homosexual is a chosen way to go. They’re attracted to the same sex, just like you and I are attracted to the opposite sex. It is how they are wired.
And I should not be forced to employ these evolutionary dead enders, whose only defective wiring lies in their head.
No, I have never wondered why a Marxist who encourages and promotes the worst kinds of sin would inevitably be elected, nor have I wondered why good is called evil and evil is called good.
Radical's use of the government to allow the importation of a foreign country (ready to be propagandized) while wholesale indoctrination of all children away from the social views of their parent's have inevitably led to the election of men like Barney Frank as well as the Marxist.
My only wonder is why those who have insisted upon eroding and compromising our principles could not see where it would lead. The strong conservatives were right and sounded the warning for decades, all the while being labeled as scaremongers.
My whole feeling is this: Given the details available, the fact that this guy resorts to making the sexuality excuse is downright despicable. The records of this guy wouldn’t look great in any normal circumstance as a coach, so how about, not have the contract renewed, and learn a little bit on how to be a better coach. This is flat-out laziness and narcissism at it’s best. At least quit making excuses about why people won’t indefinitely like you, unconditionally, and then just find ways to improve your coaching, like most people do.
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