Posted on 01/03/2015 9:55:55 AM PST by marshmallow
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CN) - The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled against a pair of Catholic firefighters who were forced to man the truck in a Pride Parade.
Theodore Fabrizio Jr. and Stephen Deninno were a firefighter and a captain, respectively, when their house, Engine Co. No. 7, received orders in June 2001 to drive a fire truck in the Pride Parade. Though the men complained to their chief that they were uncomfortable, as Catholics, with the assignment, they were denied relief and reluctantly joined the crew in the parade.
Claiming that their participation in the parade subjected them to sexual harassment, including "sexual propositions and other offensive remarks," as well as "at least 60 profanity-laced anonymous phone calls," Fabrizio and Deninno filed suit in 2004 against Providence, former Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. and former fire chief James Rattigan. Cianci and Rattigan asserted qualified immunity in 2012, but the Providence County Superior Court denied their motion for summary judgment. The Rhode Island Supreme Court unanimously reversed on Dec. 19, however, after finding the assertion of qualified immunity unnecessary since no constitutional violation occurred.
"The respondents' participation in the parade as public servants carrying out a legitimate work assignment was not a deprivation of their constitutional rights," Justice William Robinson wrote for the court. Monahan v. Girouard, a 2006 state Supreme Court decision, is controlling, according to the 10-page opinion.
(Excerpt) Read more at courthousenews.com ...
It won’t be long before being heterosexual is a hate crime.
Next time just call in sick. (sick of the PC)
The solution to the great divide in America, is for liberals and homosexuals to live in States where the culture supports them.
Conservatives should live in States where the culture sustains traditional values.
In my State, enforced participation in a homosexual parade would never be tolerated.
>>It won’t be long before being heterosexual is a hate crime.
When they make being Christian a hate crime and start making us wear an emblem on our shirt so Progs can easily ID us, I say that we should offer to wear the emblem all the way across our chest.
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Soooby that logic a woman that is raped cat file the police report until after the rapist is finshed, right?
These judges nowadays...they base their judgments on personal relationships (friend or foe, friend of a friend, someone that can do me a favor later, etc...), money / bribes, PC, fear, etc....anything but the damn truth and the law which requires a spine...when the ociety becomes even more lawless they’ll ish they had maintained order and respected the law and the author of the highest laws...
The Sodomites are taking over the government. Is this the Abomination of Desolation Daniel talked about?
>>In my State, enforced participation in a homosexual parade would never be tolerated.
In my state, I would have said that. But a judge in Miami has determined that Florida court clerks must marry gays in violation of Florida law because it violated the US Constitution.
But, the Florida ban on open carry still stands (in violation of the 2nd Amendment right to keep and BEAR arms not being INFRINGED).
Progs will do whatever they want to do, until we stop them. The soap box, ballot box, and jury box have failed.
Sooo by that logic a woman that is raped can’t file the police report until after the rapist is finshed, right?
These judges nowadays...they base their judgments on personal relationships (friend or foe, friend of a friend, someone that can do me a favor later, etc...), money / bribes, PC, fear, etc....anything but the damn truth and the law which requires a spine...when the ociety becomes even more lawless they’ll ish they had maintained order and respected the law and the author of the highest laws...
I read an article years ago (which I can’t find now) that Marines were required to march in a Pride parade. (They objected but were ordered to march.) The audience mingled and crotch-grabbed with predictable results. The article said they would all be punished. I felt badly as they were set up and then not allowed to defend themselves against what amounts to assault. Forcing somebody to participate in something for PC reasons is always bad for the forced participant.
The liberals and the homosexuals are flirting with disaster, literally. My advice to the flaming liberal in your face gays out there: run and hide in the closet you came out of. The Christians who built this country are fast running out of patience, and this time around, turning the other cheek will not be an option.
Setting aside the queer component of this for a moment, how is it a "legitimate work assignment" to drive a vehicle in a parade? Does the job description for "firefighter" include "operate very expensive publicly owned equipment for public relations purposes that have nothing to do with firefighting"?
Add to it that participation in that particular parade was a de facto endorsement of homosexuality and if this is a legitimate work assignment, so is driving the company car to the local bar, guzzling shots, and hustling women.
Things like this have really made me truly understand, down to my very core, the type of situation that compelled people to flee Europe for the New World. America is swirling down the sewer, worshipping deviancy, and becoming unwelcome if not downright antagonistic towards anyone of conscience and moral character. Literally forcing people to endorse and celebrate evil. I’m starting to wish there was yet another New World left out there somewhere.
Ping!
shoulda just called in sick...
The firefighters broke conscience and placed obedience to the world and retention of their jobs over obedience to God as they saw it. They drove.
They then sought “vindication” of their objection to compelled participation by appealing to the courts of the very world that compelled that participation.
Had they chose the correct path and not participated and then lost the case, I am sure they would have faced disciplinary action by their department of sufficient consequence to ensure compliance in the future including termination.
Many Church patriarchs paid a much higher price than a memo to a personnel file or loss of a secure job to maintain their faith and their conscience.
The Day is here where our comfort and our faith can no longer be assumed as mutually attainable.
The choices we make in such circumstances ring through our eternities.
May the Lord deliver us individually from such evil. But when confronted by hard choices, remember Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, most of the Apostles and a million more.
Choose wisely. Resist, do not comply.
I am by no means familiar with Rhode Island Constitution and state laws. But the states ratified Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the federal Constitution to prohibit themselves from making laws and policies which unreasonably abridge the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens, an agent of the state of Rhode Island, their chief, not giving the firemen consideration of their religious beliefs in this example.
Also consider that Section 3 of Article I of the Rhode Island Constitution protects religious freedom.
Constitution of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
So I surmise that pro-gay agenda Rhode Island judges are wrongly ignoring both federal and state constitutions to harass Christians.
Otherwise, what am I overlooking?
Hmmm... I never thought of it like that before.
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