No one needs to accommodate sin. No one needs to fear standing firm in the Christian faith. According to the Word of God. No one needs to yield to evil. Ever. It might not be pleasant, it won’t be easy, but look what the Lord Jesus Christ endured to cleanse and remove our sin if we believe, obey, and live daily as His disciples.
We cannot ignore or remain silent or blind to sin and evil. Nor appease or accommodate it.
Plus, if you reside in America at this point in our history you still have religious liberties that take precedence over any or all corporate, company, institution, or organization’s demands. No one, no company, no institution can force you to partake in any event or act that directly violates Christian beliefs and principles. Christian doctrine.
Do not please nor accommodate the world and its evil.
Do not fear standing firm in the faith. Always. Continually.
Even more difficult times lie ahead of us.
Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Sunday, October 30th, 2022
Kroger had to pay $180,000 to workers who were fired after they wouldn’t wear lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ pride symbols
Saturday, October 29, 2022
By Kenneth Niemeyer
Reprinted from Insider.com
- An Arkansas federal judge ordered Kroger to pay two former employees $180,000.
- They were fired from the store after refusing to wear an apron with a “multicolored heart,” court documents show.
- “Both have sincerely held religious beliefs that homosexuality is a sin and that they cannot support or promote it,” the judge wrote.
Kroger has to pay $180,000 to two former employees who were fired after they refused to wear a company apron with a phrase that they considered to be a lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ symbol after a lawsuit.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on behalf of the two employees who were disciplined and ultimately fired from their jobs at a Kroger in Conway, Arkansas. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Brenda Lawson and Trudy Rickerd on September 14, 2020, in Eastern Arkansas District court, according to court documents.
Rickerd and Lawson alleged that Kroger failed to provide religious accommodations for them when they were asked to wear an apron with a “multicolored heart on it.”
“Defendant Employer refused to consider Lawson’s request for a religious accommodation for her sincerely held religious belief,” the lawsuit says. “Defendant Employer continued to discipline Lawson for her failure to follow the dress code by wearing the apron that was contrary to her sincerely held religious belief.”
The lawsuit requested backpay for Rickerd and Lawson and asked for punitive damages and asked Kroger to “institute and carry out policies, practices, and programs which provide equal employment opportunities for Lawson and Rickerd.”
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lee Rodofsky, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump in July 2019, ordered Kroger Limited Partnership to $180,000 to Rickerd and Lawson and “provide reasonable accommodations to employees who have sincere religious objections to Kroger’s dress code,” court documents show. Rudofsky also ordered the company to create a religious accommodation policy and new employee training.
Rudofsky wrote in the order that Rickerd and Lawson “both have sincerely held religious beliefs that homosexuality is a sin and that they cannot support or promote it.”
Kroger did not immediately return Insider’s request for comment on Saturday.
The EEOC said in a statement that Kroger had agreed to create a religious accommodation policy and give store management more religious discrimination training.
“This policy will provide guidelines for requesting religious accommodation,” Faye A. Williams, regional attorney of the EEOC’s Memphis District Office said in the statement. “The parties in the case worked in good faith to resolve this matter, and the Commission is pleased with the resolution.”
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