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Title: Court rules lesbian chef is owed $1.6M after boss prayed to 'cure her of her sexuality'
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URL Source: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/03 ... f-her-sexuality/6631396282843/
Published: Apr 1, 2014
Author: Evan Bleier
Post Date: 2014-04-01 23:50:40 by A K A Stone
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Comments: 21
March 31 (UPI) -- A New York appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s 2012 ruling that a lesbian chef is owed $1.6 million for being forced to attend weekly prayer meetings where her boss would regularly warn that "gay people" were "going to go to hell." Mirella Salemi sued Gloria's Tribeca Inc., Gloria's Tribecamex and principal owner Edward Globokar for violations of the New York City Human Rights Law after a string of incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2007. Gloria's Tribeca is a Mexican restaurant. Salemi was awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages in what her lawyer, Derek Smith, called "the largest employment verdict in 2012 in New York." A three-judge panel of the Appellate Division's Manhattan-based First Department affirmed the verdict for Salemi. “He not only threatened her soul, but he also threatened her livelihood,” Smith told the New York Post in 2012. “He thought praying might cure her of her sexuality, but she is someone who didn’t need to be saved.” Globokar had attempted to argue that he was simply exercising his right to free speech. "The trial court properly protected Globokar's First Amendment rights by instructing the jury that he had 'a right to express his religious beliefs and practice religion, providing that he does not discriminate against his employees based on religion or sexual orientation,'" the judges wrote in their ruling. i
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
I'm with the plaintiff on this one.
I'd hire a hitman before I'd pay the bitch one cent.
Why didn't the mutant quit her job ! It wasn't like her career - life was threatened ! When were Mexican restaurants federalized - owned - staffed by the dept of liberal immorality queers - nazis ! Oh yeah ... put the owner out of business --- freedom of thought - religion - speech !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Is that what you would do? Run away? She did the right thing, because the business owner did the wrong thing. Its really easy to understand if you try.
Anti Christ ... mark of the beast - 666 --- social engineering - Nazis !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
What specifically did the business owner to that war wrong or illegal?
Globokar held weekly prayer meetings that were essentially mandatory because the restaurant staff feared they would lose their jobs if they did not attend. At these meetings, Globokar would repeatedly call homosexuality a sin, and say that “gay people” were “going to go to hell.” - See more at: http://theseattlelesbian.com/nyc-lesbian-chef-owed-1-6m-for- harassment/#sthash.9G0xSQhT.dpuf
Lose ... eternity - their souls - health --- is ok ! Why not live - work where they are welcome - comfortable !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
What does essentially mean? What does feared mean?
Is it legal to hold weekly prayer meetings? Or is that unlawful?
Which is accurate. Is it illegal to call faggots sinners?
Is that illegal to say? Does the Bible teach that? What is the first amendment and what does it mean? Do you support the first amendment?
Let's not go Clinton here, and start challenging the implied meaning of words. Perhaps if the business owner had concentrated on business and not the private lives of his employees he would not have cost himself $1.6 million. "...Additional evidence demonstrated that as a result of Globokar’s improper conduct, plaintiff was retaliated against for objecting to his offensive comments, choosing not to attend workplace prayer meetings and refusing to fire another employee because of his sexual orientation..." "...“The trial court properly protected Globokar’s First Amendment rights by instructing the jury that he had ‘a right to express his religious beliefs and practice religion, providing that he does not discriminate against his employees based on religion or sexual orientation...,” Not really much room here for argument....this was a New York County Supreme Court ruling...
Are you really such a wuss you can't answer simple questions that will show you are incorrect. You're afraid to admit you are wrong so you dodge questions. Noted.
You support Tyranny. You are a domestic enemy. You don't even know what the first amendment is. How dare you call yourself and American.
You don't even know what the first amendment is. How dare you call yourself and American. Please, Your insults are pointless and ignorant. I will comment as I choose without regard for your opinion. Try to understand, you cannot always get your way. Your racist, homophobic, misogynistic views are held by a tiny, and shrinking portion of America. Let your anger go. You are living in a fantasy world where Fred Phelps, George Wallace, and David Duke are the leaders, and it's making you an angry bitter man. Let it go.
You're afraid to admit you are wrong so you dodge questions. A "Wuss" ? You're funny! Your maturity level is adolescent! I like it! You're afraid to admit you are wrong so you dodge questions. I'm not wrong. You are.
Checkmate. Here is part of the first amendment. "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech," Any law that limits the exercise of ones religion or limiting free speech is null and void. The constitution os the supreme law? Do you know what that means? I don't see anything in the constitution about rights of people that work for someone else. Nothing there to trump the mans religious rights. She didn't have to work there if she didn't want to. The guy can hire or fire anyone for any reason he wants to. If he doesn't like you because you are a homo then he has every right to do that. You cannot force a person to hire someone they don't want to. If the man says you have to go to church or you wont get hired. That is ok too because he can set the condidions and you can take them or leave them. Furthermore You said the people only feared and thought there would be consequences. It doesn't matter if there were consequences. But there weren't. A persons phobia isn't a basis for a judgement against someone else for exercising their rights. Also 1.6 million. Ridiculous. You are with the tyrants. Fact. Like I said checkmate.
I sure you would have a different opinion if the employer was Muslim, or Buddhist....
You don't believe in freedom of association. For example I work for myself. I wold never hire a faggot. If I learned I hired one. I would fire them for it. And no one can do anything about it.
True - Currently there is nothing in Ohio's anti-discrimination law that would specifically penalize you for such an act. For businesses with fewer that 4 employees, you can pretty much discriminate against anyone you please.... What if the individual in question was your best and most productive and loyal employee? Would you still follow through on your claim?
"...for being forced to attend weekly prayer meetings..."
#2. To: Jameson (#1)
"The trial court properly protected Globokar's First Amendment rights by instructing the jury that he had 'a right to express his religious beliefs and practice religion, providing that he does not discriminate against his employees based on religion or sexual orientation,'" the judges wrote in their ruling.
#3. To: Jameson (#1)
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#4. To: BorisY (#3)
Why didn't the mutant quit her job !
#5. To: Jameson (#4)
Its really easy to understand if you try.
#6. To: Jameson (#4)
She did the right thing, because the business owner did the wrong thing.
#7. To: A K A Stone (#6)
What specifically did the business owner to that war wrong or illegal?
#8. To: Jameson (#7)
they would lose their jobs
#9. To: Jameson (#7)
Globokar held weekly prayer meetings that were essentially mandatory because the restaurant staff feared they would lose their jobs if they did not attend.
#10. To: Jameson (#7)
Globokar held weekly prayer meetings
#11. To: Jameson (#7)
At these meetings, Globokar would repeatedly call homosexuality a sin,
#12. To: Jameson (#7)
and say that “gay people” were “going to go to hell.”
#13. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Globokar held weekly prayer meetings that were essentially mandatory because the restaurant staff feared they would lose their jobs if they did not attend.
#14. To: Jameson (#13)
#15. To: Jameson (#13)
Perhaps if the business owner had concentrated on business and not the private lives of his employees he would not have cost himself $1.6 million.
#16. To: A K A Stone (#15)
You support Tyranny. You are a domestic enemy.
#17. To: A K A Stone (#14)
Are you really such a wuss you can't answer simple questions that will show you are incorrect.
#18. To: Jameson (#16)
#19. To: A K A Stone (#18)
If the man says you have to go to church or you wont get hired. That is ok too because he can set the condidions...(did you mean conditions?) and you can take them or leave them.
#20. To: Jameson (#19)
I sure you would have a different opinion if the employer was Muslim, or Buddhist...
#21. To: A K A Stone (#20)
I wold never hire a faggot. If I learned I hired one. I would fire them for it. And no one can do anything about it.
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