I just read a disturbing article on FoxNews.com about a man in Massachusetts who was fired from his job for telling a female colleague who repeatedly told him about her marriage to another woman that homosexuality was “bad stuff.” According to the company the man worked for, Brookstone, the comment was grounds for termination because he imposed his beliefs on this woman and because calling her “deviant” and “immoral” constituted “harrasment” and “discrimination” under their zero-tolerance policy. The man, Peter Vidala, said that he never told the woman that she was deviant, but rather that homosexual behavior was, in that it deviates from the norm.
Now I don’t know what this company’s zero-tolerance policy states, or what the specifics of this conversation were. But what I gather from this story is that the woman wanted to have some kind of discussion with Vidala about her marriage to another woman because she mentioned it four times. It seems pretty obvious to me that she wanted him to comment on it. Being a Christian, Vidala should have every right to say, in a loving and respectful way, that has faith tells him that homosexuality is immoral. This woman had the right to repeatedly tell him about her “marriage;” Vidala should have had the right to respond.
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