LDS woman fired for faith
A California woman says she was fired because she is a member of the LDS church.
Judy Clark of Thermal, Calif., is suing a family owned chain of mobile-home parks, saying she was forced from her job in 2003 — just a few weeks after she had discovered a company memo calling the LDS church a cult and recommending its activities be banned from the parks.
Two other Mormon employees were also fired.
Judy Clark of Thermal, Calif., is suing a family owned chain of mobile-home parks, saying she was forced from her job in 2003 — just a few weeks after she had discovered a company memo calling the LDS church a cult and recommending its activities be banned from the parks.
Two other Mormon employees were also fired.
The memo came out meeting of "chaplains" of a nonprofit evangelical ministry organized for the three mobile-home parks. The memo called for Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Baha'i faith, New Ageism and other religions . . .
. . . held to be conflictive with our evangelical Christian world view and practice be disallowed from resort park promotions and facilities.Interestingly, Clark is being represented in the case by the Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council, which specializes in religious freedom cases.
4 Comments:
Now where is the ACLU when you need them? I thought they fought discrimination against individuals based on race, religion, nationality, etc?
Oh wait, is this womn conservative?
Oh forget it then.
Freaking liberal hypcrites.
To the scared-to-put name person above:
Here is some information that will help you sound less silly. The ACLU is like a law office. You ask them to represent you. The local chapter was undoubtedly not contacted by this woman. Given the facts of the case as stated, if they had been asked, they surely would have agreed to consider taking the case.
Now say you're sorry.
Anonymous doesn't need to say sorry. The ACLU has a history of seeking out clients so they can file cases. Because of their well known history of case against the LDS church all over the nation, many of which they have sought out clients, it is doubtful they would take the LDS lady as a client. The other issue is money. Also historically, the ALCU take high profile big money cases where win or lose they get their fees guaranteed. This would probably fall into the category of a not big enough case, revenue wise. My point, the ACLU is a big buiness designed to make money. The freedom stuff comes second.
I don't know much about the ACLU, but I do know that, as of 2 years ago, the woman in charge of the ACLU in Utah was a very nice LDS person.
It seems to me that they stand up for the rights of everyone, including people they find reprehensible. They believe strongly in the freedom of speech (and perhaps have a broader interpretation of that than most Utahns).
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