Clerk Claims Religious Bias in Incident With Trans Woman

[William769]

A Macy’s store in San Antonio has fired an employee who refused to let a transgender woman use a women’s fitting room — and now a conservative legal group says the worker’s religious freedom was violated.

A few days after Thanksgiving, the worker, Natalie Johnson, denied the transgender customer access to the dressing room at the Macy’s in the Rivercenter Mall, and an argument ensued, involving other customers as well as Johnson’s manager, the Houston Chronicle reports. The manager told her that transgender shoppers could use the room of their choice.

According to Liberty Counsel, a legal organization associated with the religious right, Johnson was subsequently fired. (Macy’s declined comment, citing privacy policy surrounding personnel managers, the Chronicle reports.)

Liberty Counsel officials say Johnson was refusing to go against her religious beliefs by allowing the customer, whom they describe as a “cross-dressing young man,” to use the women’s fitting room. On its website, the group is encouraging people to contact Macy’s and let the company know they oppose the transgender policy. “Macy’s has essentially opened women’s dressing rooms to every man,” Liberty Counsel chairman Mathew Staver says in a statement on the site. “The LGBT agenda has become the theater of the absurd.”

http://www.advocate.com/Business/Clerk_Claims_Religious_Bias_in_Incident_With_Trans_Woman/

I fail to see where the clerk can claim Religious Bias, I'm pretty knowledgeable with the Bible.

[HillWilliam]

1. Jeebus told me to hate you...

Mmmyah. Makes about as much sense, dunnit.

[uriel1972]

2. This is insane

If your religion doesn't allow you to fulfill all reasonable duties of your job DON'T apply.

[ingac70]

3. +1

[petronius]

4. You can't be that knowledgeable of the Bible, if you're not familiar with

the three whole chapters in which Jesus described allowable modes of dressing-room discrimination, along with sundry other forms of Biblically-approved bullying and harassment in the retail industry. It's right between His first draft of the Constitution, and that long rambling section in which He explains why American football is so much better than the European kind...

;)

[queerart]

8. Your Post.......

Has To Be The Funniest Thing I have Read In A Good Long Time....


Bravo!

[Initech]

5. I don't get the religious bias either - what does that have to do with anything?

Why must people keep making it about their religion? I don't get it. I guess it's more of that "haters gonna hate" bullshit. :eyes:

[xchrom]

6. recommend

[joeybee12]

7. It's Macy's policy, it's Macy's fitting rooms, not the clerk's...

She has no case, so that makes twits like her scream even louder.

[yardwork]

9. It's against her religion to...... Wait. What?