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And what do you believe?  [message #65512] Mon, 28 March 2011 15:23 Go to next message
chrisjames147 is currently offline  chrisjames147

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There are many things we don't understand about the culture of hate. Most of the prejudice against other people is based upon ignorance, and this is a fine example of that:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41959553?GT1=43001

Throughout the reading of this article I kept waiting for the judge to ask the most pointed question: Does your Christianity affect the way you view people who practice Wicca?

The woman was wronged by those around her, her employers seemed to surround her with falsehoods and accepted the lies of her fellow employees. In any workplace situation there are ways of driving people out, setting them up to fail, and this is what I see took place here.

The Transportation Safety people (TSA) have been shown to hire some of the most ignorant applicants if you consider the number of lawsuits pending. If you fly anywhere in the US you would understand that statement. Every passenger is viewed as a criminal and thus Homeland Security provides us with nothing viable except an expense.

We would be better off with a troop of monkeys searching the baggage, unless of course you happened to be a banana salesman. Wicca is a personal belief system, much like Buddhism. This incident only proves how a Christian based society oppresses people.



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Re: And what do you believe?  [message #65513 is a reply to message #65512] Mon, 28 March 2011 15:48 Go to previous message
timmy

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What is interesting in this story is the crass stupidity of the employee who complained and the firing manager. It is yet another example of the lack of 21st century human rights, rights that the civilised world has and which the USA tramples over.

In the EC this dismissal would have led to a law suit which the fired staff member would have won. Here it is illegal to discriminate.

Managers do not appreciate people who are different or who have an opinion when they are low grade and lowly paid staff.



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