Lillian Ladele Loses Phony Religious Discrimination Case.
Last year Lillian Ladele decided to refuse to do her job as registrar because she hates gay people. Of course she used the tired “deeply held religious beliefs” excuse. When she was fired she sued for religious discrimination since being fired for insubordination was apparently an infringement of her “deeply held religious beliefs”. The tribunal that decided the case found for Ms. Ladele and she was to receive a settlement.
Flash forward several months and to Ladele’s chagrin, the appeals tribunal reversed the decision.
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“The allegations were that there had been direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment.…..
“The EAT held that the Tribunal had erred in law and that on the evidence adduced before the Tribunal there was no proper basis for a tribunal concluding that any of these forms of discrimination had been established.”
The appeal was upheld and the EAT substituted a ruling that there was no discrimination.
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Good for them. If only the US would follow suit and stop allowing people to use their “religious beliefs” to selectively refuse to do their jobs and engage in overt bigotry toward others.
The Christian Institute, a fundamentalist group that often intervenes to try to stop gay people being treated equally, had financially backed Ms Ladele.
…..“If this decision is allowed to stand it will help squeeze out Christians from the public sphere because of their religious beliefs on ethical issues.”
No, it will simply remind them that when they’re hired to do a job they can’t pick and choose what they’ll do and who they’ll do it for. Nobody else would get away with such nonsense so there’s no reason for them to do so. If anybody were to refuse to serve Christians because it violated their sensibilities or principles you can bet the roof would be blown off with the collective cry of “Christian Persecution”. But when they’re doing the persecuting it’s OK because they’re doing it in the name of their religion.
They need to drop the double standards and duplicity or deal with the consequences.
