Posted on 08/03/2015 12:42:11 PM PDT by Mount Athos
College football analyst Craig James filed suit against Fox Sports in a Dallas court this morning contending religious discrimination for his 2013 termination over his stance on gay marriage.
[He] expressed deep concern that a corporate entity could fire someone for voicing an opinion shared by three-fourths of the voters of his state in a plebiscite on gay marriage.
Fox Sports hired the former SMU and New England Patriots running back after his unsuccessful bid for one of Texas’ U.S. Senate seats in 2012 in which the candidate responded to a question about gay marriage by stating, “I’m a guy that believes in a man and a woman,” and urging Christians to “stand up” on the issue. During the discussion of gay marriage, James asserted: “God’s going to judge each one of us in this room for our actions.”
“‘We just asked ourselves how Craig’s statements would play in our human resources department,’ a Fox spokesman told the Dallas Morning News. “‘He couldn’t say those things here.’”
But James counters he didn’t say “those things” at Fox Sports but rather in the context of a political campaign over a year before he joined the network. He also points out that he hired an openly-gay man as a senior campaign consultant and worked without incident with people of diverse backgrounds during his football and broadcasting careers.
Such boasting about the non-job-related reasons for the termination, coupled with state regulations forbidding discrimination on religious grounds (both James and former employer Fox Sports Southwest call North Texas home), allow for a clear-cut case, James and his lawyers believe.
“It makes the case very straightforward,” Hiram Sasser, a Liberty Institute attorney working on the case, tells Breitbart Sports. “They admitted their reason. They were very proud of that reason.”
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Craig James has a problem with too much honesty. His colleagues had the same thoughts but covered them up. What normal man favors the marriage of 2 queers?
“[He] expressed deep concern that a corporate entity could fire someone for voicing an opinion shared by three-fourths of the voters of his state in a plebiscite on gay marriage.”
Welcome to the brave new world!
one half of the Pony Express!
Ride em hard Craig....(maybe that’s bad phrase given the subject matter...)
His kid had some issues with the coach at Tech. In the closet :-)
Well that and those Five Hookers he killed. ;)
Ha!!
Craig James has a problem with too much honesty.
REALLY? This is the guy that cheated and lied, got multi-thousands of dollars in brown paper sacks and put SMU on the Death Penalty? Then encouraged his kid to “exaggerate” to get the TT football coach fired or put on probation.
Are we talking about the same Craig James?
Oldplayer
James receiving gifts while at SMU helped lead to SMU’s death penalty. I don’t believe the King James version of this event.
This has been simmering for 2 years. Probably some behind-the-scenes push to settle this didn’t work out, now the lawsuit is filed.
Let me on the jury.
It will only get worse.
>>Welcome to the brave new world!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-25/how-companies-are-using-pip-humiliate-and-get-rid-workers
Yep. Worship/Admire the emperor’s new Rainbow Underoos - or else.
That’s the one.
Anyone that thought it was only ESPN that’s in bed with the fags knows better now. Obama-loving liberal Colin Cowherd will fit in nicely with the rest of the liberals on Fox Sports.
Penthouse to outhouse in a week. LOL
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/30/espn-host-heaps-praise-on-obama-for-economy/
Craig James has a problem with too much honesty.
REALLY? This is the guy that cheated and lied, got multi-thousands of dollars in brown paper sacks and put SMU on the Death Penalty? Then encouraged his kid to “exaggerate” to get the TT football coach fired or put on probation.
Are we talking about the same Craig James?
Oldplayer”
You know something, sometimes people change and queers getting married isn’t exactly the same thing. Was there a conviction or just an accusation in a tabloid?
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