Judge: Workplace lecture was religious harassment

[SecularMotion]

DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa grocery store owner who lectured an employee on her religious beliefs must pay her unemployment benefits, a state judge has ruled.

The case centered on a question that often divides civil libertarians and people of faith: Do business owners have the right to advocate for their religious beliefs in discussions with employees?

The store owner, Tyler Stille, says his faith is an integral part of his business and all of his 15 employees were made aware of that before they were hired.

"We have a Christian fish symbol on our sign," he said. "Before we hire anybody, we tell them our faith. We play Christian music in our store all the time, and we always make sure that's OK with them because that's a part of our life."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/12/judge-store-owner-cant-lecture-employeeson-religion/3513239/

[DetlefK]

1. "It's just a lot of baloney and it's more of government getting involved where it shouldn't,"

By his own account he screamed at her in his office until she started crying hysterically. And the big, bad government shouldn't punish him when she quits her job because of that.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Pay up, chump, that's what Jesus would do. nt

[rug]

3. Last week's discussion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218100239