A Social Security Administration (SSA)
judge in Texas claims that the requirement to watch an LGBT diversity
video creates a “religiously hostile work environment.”
According to The
Washington Post, Judge Gary Suttles cites his First Amendment
rights and religious protections under the Civil Rights Act in a
lawsuit against his employer filed Thursday in federal court.
Suttles is asking a judge to bar his
supervisors from taking any disciplinary action against him at least
until a review by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in
mid-March is completed.
“The agency has wholly failed to work
in good faith to reasonably accommodate Judge Suttles' sincerely held
religious belief against watching” the video, the suit states.
Suttles' complaint also claims that the
SSA violated his rights “by discriminating against him on the basis
of his religion” and “creating a religiously hostile work
environment,” and that the agency “retaliated against him” when
he sought the religious accommodation.
The agency proposed Suttles read a
transcript of the video, but Suttles refused, saying in his complaint
that he objects to the video's message, not the medium.
No one retaliated, it was a job requirement, he failed to comply with those duties, no one stopped him from going to church, or praying to himself, or holding any beliefs.
Just another bigot trying to say he hates homo's.
1 comment:
i have to say that i can understand at least some of this guy's situation. i remember the required sexual harassment videos we had to watch, and i remember thinking to myself that i wish i didnt have to watch them, as i did not think it applied to me. ive never thought of women or men as anything but equals in the workplace. that said, i just ponied up and watched them because i had to.
suck it up, yer honorless, and do your damn job.
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