Antigay Remark Draws Firing

One more thing: I've just read around 2 dozen comments, and I'm amazed at the venom and disgust directed at this young man. Out of all those comments, I think 1 or 2 expressed that he has a right to his opinion/beliefs. Really? The Bible says that Christians will be persecuted and hated for their beliefs. How true.

Her repeated discussion of her personal life and inclinations, especially which draws moral divisions, should not be allowed under any company's policy. She should be disciplined. But in MA, that would never happen. This feels like a case where one person's right to [liberal] free speech is favored over another's right to [conservative] free speech. "Tolerance" (what it used to mean): You believe what you believe, and I believe what I believe. And while I don't share your beliefs, I respect you as a person. "Tolerance" (what it means today): You must accept my controversial lifestyle/beliefs, or else. Any words to the contrary will not be tolerated. For the record, God is real, and He lives. He did inspire the holy word, and He did design a marriage to be between a man and a woman. And homosexuality is sin. Alas, we all sin, but can be forgiven through the blameless crucifiction of Jesus. I love sinners, and if I talk about sin, it is not done to break down but to build up.

Good, I'm glad you got fired, there is not room for this type of discrimination or harassment, you deserved it buddy!

If the manager did, as alleged, tell Vidala several times of her marriage then she is guilty of sexual harassment. Note that she has power over him, not the other way around, and it appears she was making the workplace a hostile environment for him. He should hire an attorney and sue her and the bookstore.

what a douchebag

The law is claar and it must be simple to be enforcable. People do not "open themselves up" for bigotry, criticism, judgemtn, and discrimination because the reveal their sexual preference. Peter did not have to say what he said. By saying what he said he was breaking the law. It is simple.

Brookstone had a duty and an obligation to fire this guy. He was in a management position and should have known of the company’s policy against harassment. If he had told a Jew or a Muslim or an African American or a Latino that he disapproved of them because of HIS religious beliefs would that have been okay? NO, so why is this any different? Bigotry is what it is and he deserved to be fired. Not everyone is christian.

I find it amazing that he seems to have no concept of why this would easily get him fired. It's as if his holier-than-though arrogance prevents him from pondering what it would be like if someone came up to him and told him that his heterosexual lifestyle/marriage was deviant.

This is stupidity not discrimination. The man is entitled to his opinion as much as she is entitled to talk about her pending marriage. She was a "visiting" manager which means she probably didn't know him very well so she really shouldn't have been discussing her personal life with him in the first place. Since she chose to bring it up more than once, she opened herself up to him giving his opinion. Had he simply made some off the cuff gay slur in front of everyone after a gay couple left, that would be different but she continued to discuss something with him which he was apparently offended by so she should have been talked to by management as well. I wish we would stop being so sensitive to every insensitive remark people make. All this does is make others resent us and not want to give us equal rights. As a whole we need to grow up and get some balls and stop crying everytime some playground bully hurts our feelings.

If this so-called christer has a so-called direct connection with his so-called deity (air quotes) why doesn't he pray for a better job than lower management in an airport gift shop? Since prayer, allegedly, works he should have no problem finding a legal (air quotes) job in Massachusetts - the state where you can be fired for being a christer. That's the so-called reality (air quotes) he is attempting to state isn't it? If you are a so-called good christer then anything negative you have to say about another so-called person or group of persons is not prejudice or bigotry it is (air quotes) opinion and sanctioned by and from the bible...or as I like to call it "the babble".