Sunday - April 17, 2011

please, lets have no displays of the cross in a business vehicle . might offend.

This happens a lot.  I have something I want to post and share, all set and ready but something else catches my eye.

Like this bit of insanity.  Words do fail at moments like this. But I doubt they’ll fail some of you.
How did western civilization ever get this far without the politically correct lunatics dictating how we should think and act.
Especially on the subject of the display of a cross.

Have you ever noticed that even those who aren’t red, don’t make any fuss about the odd display here and there of a hammer and sickle?
Especially at lefty protests over almost anything.
But don’t dare have a cross on the dashboard because that is offensive behavior and it might be seen as intimidating to others not of that faith.

What a load of BS. What a very sick and twisted world the pc crowd has created.  Why isn’t anybody shooting those jerks?

Take a look at this.  Came across my screen a half hour ago. And btw ... PLEASE see the link below cos you really should read every last word of this article, and see the photos as well.  This clearly shows (as if you need more evidence) where America might also be headed when the pc idiots gain everything they want.  And that is not a dumb statement nor is it beyond the possible if allowed to continue unchecked. As it apparently is here. And yeah, I am pissed off at the utter stupidity and lunacy of this act.  See the link.

Persecuted for his cross: Electrician told he faces the sack for Christian symbol on his van dashboard

By JONATHAN PETRE

Last updated at 10:31 AM on 17th April 2011

An electrician faces the sack for displaying a small palm cross on the dashboard of his company van.

Former soldier Colin Atkinson has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing by the giant housing association where he has been employed for 15 years because he refuses to remove the symbol.

Mr Atkinson, a regular worshipper at church, said: ‘The treatment of Christians in this country is becoming diabolical...but I will stand up for my faith.’

Throughout his time at work, he has had an 8in-long cross made from woven palm leaves attached to the dashboard shelf below his windscreen without receiving a single complaint.

But his bosses at publicly funded Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) in West Yorkshire – the fifth-biggest housing organisation in England – have demanded he remove the cross on the grounds it may offend people or suggest the organisation is Christian. Mr Atkinson’s union representative said he faces a full disciplinary hearing next month for gross misconduct, which could result in dismissal.

The association strongly promotes ‘inclusive’ policies and allows employees to wear religious symbols at work.

It has provided stalls at gay pride events, held ‘diversity days’ for travellers, and hosted a gender reassignment event entitled A World That Includes Transpeople.

(WOW. So now there’s a new category called, “Transpeople?” A question. Why is all the above funded with public money? It is ya know. If those people need all those things, they should get their own financing or pay out of their own pockets. Oh no. That’d never do when so much public money is on offer. And why should it be the association’s responsibility to host those things anyway? )

Mr Atkinson, who has an unblemished work record, said he had not been shown similar respect.

‘The past few months have been unbelievable, a nightmare,’ he said.

‘I have worked in the coal mines and served in the Army in Northern Ireland and I have never suffered such stress. The treatment of Christians in this country is becoming diabolical. It is political correctness taken to the extreme.’

But he added: ‘I have never been so full of resolve. I am determined to stand up for my rights. If they sack me, so be it. But I am standing up for my faith.’

Mr Atkinson’s battle follows a series of similar cases involving Christians who claim their freedoms have been curbed following the introduction of controversial equality laws.

Campaigners accused the housing association of ‘remarkable intolerance’ at a time when millions of Christians will be celebrating Palm Sunday today, a week before Easter Sunday. Palms are traditionally distributed during services to mark Christ’s triumphal entrance into Jerusalem.

Despite the company’s treatment of Mr Atkinson, the boss of the depot where he works in Castleford has been allowed to adorn his office with a poster of the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.

Denis Doody, who is WDH’s environmental manager, also has a whiteboard on which are written several quotations by the Marxist guerrilla leader, who was a key figure in the Cuban revolution in the Fifties.

Colleagues said staff and even members of the public who were visiting the depot would be able to see the poster and whiteboard through his office window.

Mr Atkinson began work as an electrician in the mines before serving as an Army radio technician for seven years. His military career included a stint at the notorious, riot-torn Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland in 1974.

He was employed as a £25,000-a-year electrician by Wakefield Council in 1996, but its housing department was transferred into the association’s ownership six years ago.

His ordeal began last year when managers at WDH, which has 31,000 properties, told Mr Atkinson to remove the cross from the van after years of ignoring it.

He demanded to know why. He said his cross was as discreet and inoffensive as other forms of religious expression and accused his bosses of badgering him.

The company said, however, that he had refused a ‘reasonable’ request to remove the symbol from an official vehicle that could be seen by members of the public.

The 64-year-old grandfather became a committed Christian more than 20 years ago and was a regular Church of England worshipper for many years.

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Posted by peiper     on 04/17/2011 at 04:55 AM   
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