Saturday, August 27, 2005

More Leftist "Tolerance"

I am not surprised at this. The Left's tolerance only extends as far as you agree with them. Found this at the Focus on the Family web site:

A man punished for his belief that marriage is between one man and one woman is taking it to court.

An Orange County, California, computer technician demoted by his supervisor after expressing his personal belief in traditional marriage has filed a lawsuit in federal court.

The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) agreed to represent the man, whose name has not been disclosed, based on what it says is the basic issue of whether people in the workplace can be demoted for being in support of defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

His offense? According to Brad Dacus, president of PJI, the employee had posted a bumper sticker in his cubicle that said, "Marriage = man + woman." When his supervisor demanded that he take it down, he did so without incident.

Apparently after this, he was demoted:

Dacus said even though other employees were permitted to have personal, religious and even political messages in their cubicles, the supervisor made it very clear that she would not accept that employee's point of view.

"She saw this as offensive and she demoted him and felt justified in doing so," Dacus said. "If the tables had been turned and the employee had had a pink triangle at his private work cubicle—or a statement supporting homosexual marriage or domestic partners—and the supervisor had told him to take those down and demoted him you would be seeing the ACLU and other organizations not hesitating to take on this case."

Are you kidding? They would already have tarred and feathered the supervisor, then they would have tried to link him/her to John Roberts.

Dacus said it is important for those who hold traditional values to demonstrate equal resolve to ensure that people who hold those values and beliefs are not treated as second class citizens and are getting the same representation.

"Tolerance is a two-way street and one-way tolerance isn't tolerance at all—it's tyranny," Dacus said. "And that is exactly what we see being exhibited by this intolerant lesbian supervisor."

Yep. No doubt she is one of those "people of peace" who screech about the intolerance of the Right and how we're trying to shove our views down other peoples' throats. I'd love to get a background on this wench. Let's hope justice prevails.