Posted on 12/07/2004 12:37:12 PM PST by RonF
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University student has been suspended from his job as a physics department assistant and may lose the job after objecting to Purdue's United Way campaign because the charity supports anti-gay groups such as the Boy Scouts.
Mike Sloothaak was placed on administrative suspension without pay Nov. 19 after protesting United Way solicitations from the Northwest Indiana university's president and Andrew Hirsch, head of the school's physics department.
Those solicitations included an email from the physics department in October that listed all physics graduate students and staff who hadn't returned their United Way pledge forms. The email was sent to everyone on the list and Sloothaak replied to the entire list, detailing his reasons for not contributing to the charity, principally that it supports groups such as the Boy Scouts, which bars gays.
"I respond every year," Sloothaak said. "I've never contributed and I always protest."
Sloothaak said he was given a vague warning about using "university resources" to protest, after which he copied about a dozen flyers objecting to the United Way and put them in his supervisor's mailbox. An hour later, Sloothaak said, he was suspended.
Sloothaak said Purdue officials use university resources such as email to solicit for the United Way, so he should be able to use those same methods to criticize the charity. He said a supervisor in the physics department told him, "Supporting the United Way is university business but criticizing it is not."
Sloothaak said, "It's just coercion. It's a state institution and I think it's wrong."
University spokesman Joe Bennett said he couldn't comment specifically on Sloothaak's case because it involves personnel issues but said Purdue has clearly defined policies on use of the school's email system.
Bennett also noted the school prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and prohibits intimidation, interference or reprisals against students and staff who file complaints alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Sloothaak's employment status is scheduled to be resolved by Dec. 3, according to memos he's received from his supervisor. [12/7/04]
He responded to this intimidational slander by association mailing, what a suprise.
Interesting, Purdue will be burned for using leftist tactics on a leftist.
Or Free Republic LOL
"I respond every year," Sloothaak said. "I've never contributed and I always protest."
Ya think?
Good to know that all United Ways aren't dissing the BSA. I wonder how much of the money donated to UW goes to the actual charities and how much goes to their upkeep?
Either way, it's bad for employers to force anyone to "donate". Donate means voluntary.
It is amazing how a twisted one percent of the population, has been empowered to analy rape the straight ninty nine percent of the population.
What the hell ever happened to a person's right to be right?
Civilian or Military, when it comes to the United Extortion Way, Voluntary has for fifty years, been read to mean: "Voluntarily donate or else!"
Everyone just went along to get along, until the Unwholesome Way, proclaimed that Pereversion was purer than P{atriotism and the Boy Scouts, and denied the money extorted from you and me from the BSA.
To hell with the Unwholesome Way, And Long live the BSA!!!!!!
People who are wrong don't want us to have the right to be right.
I've had people enraged at me solely because I disagree with them about "gay is good". Even if I don't say anything. Or about evolution - just them knowing I don't agree is enough to enrage them.
I don't get enraged because people are wrong - i.e. disagree with me. I understand that every human being has God given free will, and we can choose what to do, what or who (or Who) to put our faith and trust in.
I don't respect the ideas or beliefs or practices of people who are wrong, but I respect that they have free will. I would never try to force someone to agree with me. But leftists are different. They hate free will, and they get angry when people use their free will in a different direction than they do.
Notice how so many leftist crap ideas completely negate free will - "gays" are born that way, black people will always be losers unless given welfare, drug addicts can't stop so they must be given clean needles, teenagers can't possibly not screw everything that moves so they must be given condoms and abortions, people have no souls, they're just bags of meat and bones frogmarching along the path their DNA forces them to, etc.
It boils down to the fact that they see themselves as a machine, not as a soul.
Just read your profile page - may your wish come true!
They really do see themselves as a machine or a helpless victem, without either choice or responsibility for their actions.
Pathetic.
"May your wish come true!"
Thanks LJ.
I experienced the same thing when I went to work for the old Southwestern Bell Telephone. In the early 70s men were being hired into traditional women's positions. I started out as an operator.
100% was the goal and the pressure was designed to reach that goal. I simply said that I had just returned from being shot at for a year and there wasn't a %$(*^%$ way I was going to be pressured into a damn thing.
After that I became vocal to everyone about the UW and the 100% goal was sacked.
This is a free country and all citizens are free to protest in pro-gay rallies only. In the spirit of tolerance no other views will be tolerated period.
/sarcasm.
Woh I need to retract that. I misread and thought he was tossed for backing the scouts.....
DOH!!
Ours is. They don't support any organizations that fund abortions, and they do support the Boy Scouts.
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