Drink Coffee? You may be a Witch (in Utah)

[emad]

Mo Better Blue

A Utah school board saw witchcraft in a coffee-drinking teacher. Now she sees religious discrimination.
by Ted McDonough


In her final year teaching high school, Erin Jensen had her 11th-grade American literature students read The Crucible, a classic Arthur Miller play that lambastes Cold War red-baiting by comparing it with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

She didn’t know it then, but the all-Mormon school board was getting ready to fire her, having decided she was a witch.

Jensen is now suing the Sevier School District in the rarest type of court case in Utah—a case alleging religious discrimination in the workplace.

The federal office that investigates workplace discrimination in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico recently settled two lawsuits involving Mormons at work, winning for an LDS hotel concierge fired after she complained about being required to work Sundays and getting a credit union to pay $65,000 to settle claims it promoted only Mormons.

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/city_1_2005-07-14.cfm

[dhinojosa]

1. Ah, mormons! Good when they sue and win. But if you try to sue them.....

...they want you to go to Utah, in a mormon district, under a Mormon judge, using Mormon Law.

[On the Road]

4. Mormon Law? Is There Such a Thing?

How does it differ from US law? Or from Utah state law, for that matter?

[dhinojosa]

6. Get an "activist" mormon judge and you can see the law

twist before your very eyes!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Have a brain? You might be a Witch in Utah!

Wow... I have to make sure to never even stop in that state, even for a airplane stop. :yoiks:

[Burma Jones]

3. Look, if she weighs as much as a duck...............

[mcscajun]

5. Why don't they just dunk her in the Great Salt Lake...

...and see if she fl... (Never mind.) :evilgrin: