knowthyfactsnotthyneighbors blog has this story of a Virginia man who has allegedly been fired from his job for supporting a state ballot initiative defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The man Luis Padilla has been denied reinstatemet by his employer who fired him Cagill Foods who stated of Padilla:
Cargill is not required to allow Mr. Padilla to impose his beliefs on his co-workers.
To which Victoria Cobb, executive director of the Family Foundation, says:
Cargill is engaging in viewpoint discrimination. We are seeing something that is starting to happen across America and even here in Virginia, where political correctness has run amok. That’s the simplest way to put it,” says Cobb. “The legal letter that we have received back from Cargill’s legal department has basically said that they have these ‘Valuing Differences’ initiatives and they have this ‘Everyone Matters’ policy; and yet, apparently, Mr. Padilla’s views are not respected.”
Regardless of where one stands on this issue I think this story should alarm anybody concerned about our rapidly diminishing 1st Amendment.
I readily concur with Cobb’s analysis:
“It is abundantly clear that those who seek to impose same-sex ‘marriage’ on society are not at all interested in tolerance of other viewpoints,” says Cobb in a press release. “And they are willing to go so far as to destroy a man’s family and take his livelihood to get their way.”