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Court rules lesbian chef is owed $1.6M after boss prayed to 'cure her of her sexuality'
upi ^ | March 31, 2014 | Evan Bleier

Posted on 04/01/2014 6:54:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono

A New York appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s 2012 ruling that a lesbian chef is owed $1.6 million for being forced to attend weekly prayer meetings where her boss would regularly warn that "gay people" were "going to go to hell."

Mirella Salemi sued Gloria's Tribeca Inc., Gloria's Tribecamex and principal owner Edward Globokar for violations of the New York City Human Rights Law after a string of incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2007. Gloria's Tribeca is a Mexican restaurant.

Salemi was awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages in what her lawyer, Derek Smith, called "the largest employment verdict in 2012 in New York." A three-judge panel of the Appellate Division's Manhattan-based First Department affirmed the verdict for Salemi.

“He not only threatened her soul, but he also threatened her livelihood,” Smith told the New York Post in 2012. “He thought praying might cure her of her sexuality, but she is someone who didn’t need to be saved.”

Globokar had attempted to argue that he was simply exercising his right to free speech.

"The trial court properly protected Globokar's First Amendment rights by instructing the jury that he had 'a right to express his religious beliefs and practice religion, providing that he does not discriminate against his employees based on religion or sexual orientation,'" the judges wrote in their ruling.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: activistcourts; celebratesin; churchandstate; downisup; freespeech; homosexualagenda; judicialactivism; nyc; sexuality; sin; sodomandgomorrah; thoughtcrime; tribeca; waronchristianity; waronreligion
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1 posted on 04/01/2014 6:54:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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Soon, only the queers and their quislings will be able to own any business or even have employment.


2 posted on 04/01/2014 6:56:19 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: JoeProBono

Does a lesbian chef make lesbian food?


3 posted on 04/01/2014 6:56:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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Nobody should be forced to go to worship services against their will. I would like to sue the next time I’m required to take ‘diversity-sensitivity training’.


4 posted on 04/01/2014 6:57:23 AM PDT by AU72
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To: PGR88
Does a lesbian chef make lesbian food?

Bet it tastes fishy.

5 posted on 04/01/2014 6:57:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: JoeProBono

My sympathies aside, no one should be forced to worship a deity they don’t believe in but, $1.6 million? Wow.


6 posted on 04/01/2014 7:00:49 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: JoeProBono

New York, New York


7 posted on 04/01/2014 7:02:11 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Take out the trash)
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To: AU72
Almost all lesbians are atheists or agnostic. Neither believe in hell.

All companies have stupid meetings, many of which must be attended as a condition of employment.

I've had to attend company meetings which preach doctrines I do not believe in (such as diversity for the mere sake of diversity).

How is this situation any different? Other than it going against ruling class norms?

8 posted on 04/01/2014 7:02:17 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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That’s OK. Andy Cuomo declared the whole state “konservativrein” back in January, so all those pesky religious folk will self-deport . . . along with their money.


9 posted on 04/01/2014 7:02:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: JoeProBono

Just wondering if Globokar is a mooselum but on second thought, if so, he would have simply beheaded her.


10 posted on 04/01/2014 7:04:23 AM PDT by shove_it (my real nickname is Otter)
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To: JoeProBono

I wonder what “force” was used to compel her attendance...


11 posted on 04/01/2014 7:06:59 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: JoeProBono
assuming her full boo dagger posture....


12 posted on 04/01/2014 7:08:49 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: JoeProBono

She couldn’t quit?


13 posted on 04/01/2014 7:09:08 AM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: PGR88
Does a lesbian chef make lesbian food?

Carpet au jous and rare beaver.

14 posted on 04/01/2014 7:09:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: JoeProBono

Obviously the amount of the lawsuit is over the top, but unless the workplace is a church or other religious organization, no supervisor should ever require any employee to attend a prayer service.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 7:11:33 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: AU72
Nobody should be forced to go to worship services against their will. I would like to sue the next time I’m required to take ‘diversity-sensitivity training’.

Well put. That would make a great tag line.

16 posted on 04/01/2014 7:12:02 AM PDT by Kenton
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"the largest employment verdict in 2012 in New York."

Technically this was settled OoC....so, I guess, it doesn't count... Mario Batali to Settle Restaurant Lawsuit for $5.25 Million

17 posted on 04/01/2014 7:12:21 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: Vigilanteman

I think pretty much everyone believes in hell/death.


18 posted on 04/01/2014 7:12:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: JoeProBono

Christian version: “He not only threatened her soul, but he also threatened her livelihood,” Smith told the New York Post in 2012. “He thought praying might cure her of her sexuality, but she is someone who didn’t need to be saved.”

Muslim version: “He not only threatened her soul, but he also threatened her life,” Smith told the New York Post in 2012. “He thought killing might cure her of her sexuality because she is someone who didn’t need to be converted.”


19 posted on 04/01/2014 7:13:28 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: JoeProBono

In states that have “human rights” boards or anything similar it is extremely dangerous to hire a person of “diversity.” You never know when you will be dragged in front of a witch trial.


20 posted on 04/01/2014 7:14:03 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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