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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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Views: 6365
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.
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 !
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.
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
What does essentially mean? What does feared mean?
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.
#17. To: A K A Stone (#14)
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.
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#3. To: Jameson (#1)
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#4. To: BorisY (#3)
Why didn't the mutant quit her job !
#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?
#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.
#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)
Replies to Comment # 14. Are you really such a wuss you can't answer simple questions that will show you are incorrect.
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