{"id":8705,"date":"2012-05-17T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:20:28","slug":"man-sues-for-being-fired-pornography-and-christianity-come-into-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=8705","title":{"rendered":"Man sues for being fired? Pornography and Christianity come into this"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s Daily News<\/em>, via Barbara Ross:<\/p>\n

Suit: XXX gripes, faith got him fired<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Brooklyn man offended by fellow employees watching pornography at work has sued his former employer, Time Warner Entertainment, after the company fired him earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

Keith Reid … charges in a suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that his supervisors discriminated against him because of his religion for canning him after he objected several times to his co-workers’ behavior.<\/em><\/p>\n

Time Warner spokesman Eric Mangan said the company would not comment.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Reid said he had a good work record in the maintenance department at Time Warner’s Fifth Ave. operation in Brooklyn from 2002 until February 2011, when he complained about a construction supervisor watching porn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Reid told a human resources official it offended him because he is a Christian. He says he was suspended after his third complaint and later fired.<\/em><\/p>\n

So many questions here. First, were people actually watching porn while on the job at Time Warner, or is that an allegation that cropped up ex post fact<\/em>o to give Reid a reason to sue? And remember, this is Time Warner Entertainment; they do air porn on certain pay-per-view adult stations.<\/p>\n

Personally, even if his co-workers were watching porn (and who defines “porn,” anyway? Maybe they were watching Burn Notice<\/em>, and Reid doesn’t like the way Gabrielle Anwar is costumed), I object to the idea that Reid’s Savonarolan version of Christianity can be used as a cudgel to beat down those damn porn people, may they all rot in hell. I mean, he didn’t have to watch them watching porn, did he? Did they strap him into a chair and make<\/em> him watch porn?<\/p>\n

All of this follows the key question: is this guy just a hyper-religious nut whose case will be dismissed?<\/p>\n

Of course, the legal issue is: was Reid, Christian pain in the ass or not, wrongfully fired? We’ll have to keep our eyes on this case.<\/p>\n

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