Category: religious intolerance

Vante Inc. Was Probably Waiting for A Reason To Fire Adam Smith

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Anti-Chick-fil-A Tough Guy Fired for Bullying Drive Thru Girl | Video | TheBlaze.com.

Adam Smith, former CFO/Treasurer of Vante Inc in Tuscon Arizona was likely one of those  employees  who caused his employer to look for an excuse to fire him.   This man was actually fired for public behavior which he exhibited outside of the workplace, on his own time.

If a guy is so clueless as to make a video of himself berating a Chick-Fil-A drivethrough employee about the personal beliefs of her company’s CEO,  one could expect his behavior at his own job to be atrocious.   When Smith planted the video  below on Youtube,  his company grabbed the opportunity to lose an employee  who was probably everyone’s least favorite.

Watch Adam Smith in action, and observe the drive through employee resolutely sticking to her polite customer service script.

Update: Adam Smith is suffering from the after effects of his viral video. He states that his company did not allow him to explain his actions before terminating him, and that he’s been getting hate mail and death threats since he published his activism at the Chick-fil-A drive through.

Smith credited  this inspirational video utilizing a verse from Proverbs 25:21 as a mechanism for draining resources from the fast food franchise for mobilizing him to action.  It appears that Adam Smith had found a woman’s skirt that turned out not to be large enough to hide behind. If you’re not tired of leftist abuse of the Old Testament, you can listen to  Jackson Pearce, who does not understand the reasons for the social recognition of marriage: to protect children.

Meanwhile, it’s important to remember that gays can get married any time they want to. It’s their private decision,  and there are plenty of clergy which will officiate. However it  becomes the business of the public when homosexuals desire to obtain the social support system relegated to protect children which naturally are produced from heterosexual unions.

Mike Opelka at the Blaze is following this story as it unfolds.   The very impulsive Adam Smith is living with a bit of hate email, (something which occurs routinely to right wing activists),  and is said  to have developed some concern for the drive through employee whose life has also been affected  by his viral video.

Update 2: Adam Smith guns for a new job as a political activist in this newer video in which he grovels out an apology to the drive through order taker at Chick-fil-A, and issues some explanations for the behaviors which were inconsistent with his stated motives. He also apologizes for denying homosexuality in the first video, and states that if he were a closeted gay, he’d be proud. His wife and kids must be sooo impressed.
Do you think Mr. Smith is too much a drama queen to be the treasurer of a serious corporation? Ya, Vante Inc. probably did the right thing for self preservation. He should take his confused self to the major “news” networks.

Chick-Fil-A Lines on Appreciation Day

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You can click on the photo gallery below to see a collection of crowded Chick-Fil-A restaurants on Aug 1. Americans are responding to a statement that Chick-Fil-A does not represent Chicago values, and efforts to prevent restaurants from being opened there and in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
All over the U.S. the 1600 Chick-Fil-A restaurants have been enjoying booming business, and even some referrals from competing fast food places, on this  Appreciation Day.

WLS 890AM Photo Gallery.

Click here for some Commentary at Hillbuzz concerning the Tamminator’s pilgrimage to Chick-Fil-A at the University of Minnesota. The place was packed despite school being in summer session, and massive construction occurring outside. The Tamminator, who believes in the First Amendment, sez: “Freedom is delicious!”

The Price of Obamacare: Loss of Religious Freedom

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Obama: It‘s ’Not Fair’ That Catholic Employers Would Deny Women Contraception Coverage | Video | TheBlaze.com.

At 2:09 of this video is the pertinent exchange in which Obama reiterates his stance that employers and all insurers must provide birth control, abortion, and sterilization, regardless of their religious convictions. He has exempted only actual Churches from this, forgetting that people practice their religion outside of worship services. (Note that when speaking of this, the actual services are disingenuously lumped under the misnomer, “contraception”.

Man Facing Jail For Hosting Home Bible Study | Todd Starnes

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Man Facing Jail For Hosting Home Bible Study |Todd Starnes.

Pastor Michael Salman has been harassed by Phoenix City officials for years, concerning Bible studies which were held on his 4.6 acre property, with as many as 20 people in attendance.

After Salman built a two thousand square foot outbuilding the City of Phoenix is planning to jail him for zoning violations.
It would have been OK to use that building as a game room as it had been described in the building permits. Bible studies are not considered suitable entertainment activity so the rules which apply to public businesses and churches have been brought to bear on Salman. He faces 60 days in jail, $12180 in fines and 3 years probation.

Now Obamacare Faces the Religious Freedom Challenges

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Becket Fund’s HHS Mandate Challenge | Becket Fund.

There are dozens of federal lawsuits based upon the violations of human rights, that are expressed in the Sebelius HHS Mandate of Obamacare. At issue is its funding of birth control, sterilization and abortion, by forcing people to pay for it in violation of their religion. Obamacare also provides these services to minors without parental consent. Alliance Defense Fund has a fact sheet explaining these aspects of Obamacare.

The Colson center outlines the coming legal challenges to Obamacare in an article HERE.

In addition to religious affiliated organizations, private businesses owned by people of conscience are also filing suit against the Obamacare mandate, for example, O’Brien Industrial Holdings, LLC, represented by the American Center for Law and Justice.

Catholics Launch Fortnight for Freedom

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Starting June 21 and running through July 4th is a two week period of prayer and education to counteract the Obama healthcare mandate and its threat to religious freedom.

Clickables:

Fortnight for Freedom Bulletin Insert

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Gets A Clue.

Speech by a Bishop Who had a clue early on. (Archbishop Chaput moved from Denver to Philadelphia to clean house.)

Coverage at The Blaze

Video from Washington DC Archdiocese

Briton Sues NHS for Firing Her Over Her Pro-Life Views | LifeNews.com

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Briton Sues NHS for Firing Her Over Her Pro-Life Views | LifeNews.com.

Margaret Forrester, a psychological wellbeing practitioner with the Central and North West London NHS Trust, has filed suit against her employer for breaching her freedom of religion and freedom of speach. Mrs. Forrester was disciplined and suspended after an informal conversation with a colleague during which she presented a booklet and her views that abortion adversely affects the physical and mental health of women.

Mrs. Forrester, a Roman Catholic, is represented by the Thomas More Legal Centre. One of their spokespersons is wondering why the NHS objects to a discussion of abortion among their health service professionals: “If the NHS is not willing to allow the effects of Abortion to be discussed by NHS staff it raises a real question as to what the NHS is afraid of.”

Dan Savage: Too Gross for America’s Kids

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Dan Savage of the “It Gets Better” campaign is the latest favorite of the White house. Obama dumped “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings in order to clean house for the election year.  Among Jennings problems  was the underage sex issue, and the seriously pornographic stuff he had passed out to minors as sex education materials.    The alignment of the White House with the likes of the unglued  Dan Savage would be questionable in any portion of the political cycle.

Warning….. Dan Savage is the guy who invented the “google Santorum” nastiness, and he’s nothing but gross. Bear that in mind if you choose to listen to a compendium of his public comments in the video below, which ranges from fantasies about sex with the unwilling, to extremely   inappropriate advice for minors.  (Language and content warning.)  Savage  is in recent hot water for attacking Christian students at one of his so called anti-bullying rallies.