“God is dead.” Nietsche

“Nietsche is dead.” God

I would have laughed too.

It’s really hard to tell sometimes if someone is being sarcastic or not…but if someone can freely harass not only their co-workers over perceived ungodliness, but also their company’s customers too, then isn’t it the case that Christian rights not only trump gay rights, but everyone else’s?

I suppose the answer is yes…but still…

Anyway… Happy Holidays Joel!

The most annoying things about christian rights is.. like what one can deduce from BenInOakland’s statement.”How much pain, misery, and suffering do you endorse for others while you obsess over what makes MY dick hard”. Is that it encompasses more than themselves. Christian rights extend into everyones rights… not just those that possess it. It is this very nature that makes it weaker than the rest.

christians have the divine command to stand for gods truths. This includes getting in yo face about things like what do you do with yout XXX… The bible is overflowing with sanctions of the intimate kind.

Yes, if your a christian, you will continue to be assaulted on your god given rights due to its far reaching nature. First it was slaves, then it was women… now its gays.

Christianity bestows christians with the right to do exactly what this person did. This is, to me, another case of gay rights trumping christian ones.

Gay rights dont care for what you do with your … It rather gives you the right to do with it as you please.
Christians rights run starkly in contrast. Even more than just caring about it they are ultimately called to get rid of the right to do with your dingy as you please as it runs counter to god’s laws.

Erm, not true, Ben. I assure you that I exist and that people believe in me.

Granted, I bear almost no resemblance to the any of the “witches” born of Christian-fed fear and hatred, but still….;)

I wonder how many other people “need” to have Vidala figuratively s*** in their figurative punchbowl when all they are doing is living their lives and being themselves. I would bet money that the woman was talking with her acquaintances there, answering questions, making casual statements like, “I need to go pick up our dresses this afternoon.” If it wasn’t a co-worker, odds are that Vidala would have offended a customer by telling them what they “needed” soon enough.

Some people have egos like balloons–inflated large, but hollow inside and easily destroyed at a light touch. Happy and secure people do not take the fact that someone lives in a way they wouldn’t as a personal insult. I am tired of balloon-ego people who think the entire world must be laid out according to their specs.

As I read it, he was only a few weeks into his employment there. That’s usually a probationary period in most places, and during that time you can be let go with very little cause, other then in the opinion of management you’re just not working out. I suspect this is why he didn’t make this an EEOC case, but went straight to the hate mongers instead. Furthermore, one doesn’t just go to Mass Resistance for support. I suspect he, or someone in his family, or his church, already had a relationship with them before this.

They may be working themselves up to an Alliance Fund lawsuit over this. Be nice to have him on the witness stand and ask if he’d tell a Brookstone customer the same thing he told his co-worker. I’m pretty sure he’d proudly say that, yes, he would, because God would want him to. Let them win their lawsuit with that…

I would agree that since Vidala was in a management position, some disciplinary action would be warranted. But termination is extremely draconian and is akin to killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer. A brief unpaid suspension would have been more proportional to the actual severity of the infraction.

We must cure ourselves of our vindictiveness and mean-spiritedness as a people. Americans have never been a more vindictive people than we are now.