Fired Color Purple actress sues for religious discrimination — Page 2

Rainah said: "The Distinctive Baritone said: "So...according to the article, if she had apologized for the post, she might have been able to keep the job, but she refused??? This girl is in the wrong business."

Yepppp. All it would have took was a half assed "as a christian it is important to love everyone as jesus preaches." and it likely would have blown over."

Yes but if she truly believed what she said she believed, which is likely because it is business as usual Christian belief and the bible passage she quoted taken at face value is pretty clear, maybe she didn’t want to lie and uphold what she believed to be her integrity.

I find it interesting that we talk here almost as if there is no religion at play here - that she is simply ‘homophobic’ and used her religion to cover herself as if there is some conspiracy here. People aren’t born Wicked - when someone tells you they have religious beliefs that are against gay people, when they quote religious texts that are against gay people, and when they identify as being part of a system that has a hallmark of being against gay people such as through its teachings, its religious texts, its sacraments, its typical community behaviours and its influence on government policy. And when they are a victim of a system which indoctrinates children at a young age, maybe we can see that yes this is another example of the effect of religion playing out at a local level.

And these systems, this intellectual child abuse has cost her career, lost audiences a potential talent and potentially but unlikely given she wasn’t well known affected the mental health of gay people in the form of a tweet. Awful.

Updated On: 3/31/21 at 02:43 AM

qolbinau said: "And these systems, this intellectual child abuse has cost her career, lost audiences a potential talent and potentially but unlikely given she wasn’t well known affected the mental health of gay people in the form of a tweet. Awful. Religion is not ok."

So basically, it's not her fault cause she's a victim of intellectual child abuse? Wow, it's been a while since your last ridiculous screed on the horrible evils of organized religion in any form. How disappointed you must be that your attempt to frame her as yet another poor victim of the indoctrinations by those crazy Christians was largely a "no sale" here with people bright enough to recognize that her problems are solely of her own doing and completely within her control.

It did however remind me of a great line from the brilliant 2003 Christopher Guest mockumentary "A Mighty Wind" in which one of the lead characters in a behind the scenes interview admits "There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature."

Updated On: 9/30/19 at 03:22 AM

I wish people would leave their religions at the doorway when they go to work- she might lose her case in the UK- but here in Trump's America- she might win. It is all political- does religion trump individual freedom or does individual freedom trump religion? Depends on the culture and laws passed by each state or country . No right or wrong- though I think religion, for the most part, misguides and stinks.

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Updated On: 3/31/21 at 06:33 AM

As a queer person of faith it saddens me that the loudest voices are those that turn people away from the church. Not all Christians are anti-gay––and really, none should be. If your faith causes you to be super judgmental and comes from a place of us vs. them and hatred instead of a place of compassion and love, then you're doing it wrong.

Religion isn't the problem: religious extremism and fundamentalism is.

I obviously strongly disagree with Omooba's interpretation of scripture. Here's a link with a great explanation as to why her interpretation is wrong.

qolbinau said: "Finally starting to talk some sense."

Not really. Posters here are conflating "religion" with "fundamentalism". (So do intellectuals such as Stephen Dawkins, Sam Harris and Bill Maher.) I'm sure there's a technical term for argument based on the worst possible example.

There are millions of people who find in their faith a call to charity and tolerance. They just don't make the news too often because they are not so outrageous as the Fundies who pick and choose which passage of Leviticus they will enforce.

Of course there are billions of Fundamentalists (from all religions) so I don't blame anyone for sounding the alarm. I just want to be fair to those who find a more beneficial calling from their beliefs.

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JFC, this site is so full of ads that they now overlap the posts on my screen (extra-wide Mac laptop) so I can't even proofread my own contributions. This site is becoming unusable. So sad.

TheQuibbler said: "I won’t be able to articulate this as succinctly as I would like, but what’s interesting to me is obviously one can have religious views and not be homophobic but someone will have to prove that she was fired due to her religious beliefs separate of her homophobic remarks. And yet it seems she’s almost conflating them to be one and the same as if homophobia is part of her religious identity and she was then fired for that identity.
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Perfectly phrased.

“ Posters here are conflating "religion" with "fundamentalism””
Yes because those that reinterpret or ignore or reject the dogma are moving away from the religion not moving towards it. I definitely agree that like the example people you mentioned I am concerned when people actually follow and practice many of the core teachings of these religions (call it fundamentalism if you will). If people move away from the religion and don’t take it so seriously that is a good thing and highlights the very issue at hand here - the good of the mental and physical wellbeing of many people seems to involve moving away not toward religion.

Updated On: 10/1/19 at 02:27 AM

suicidalmickeymouse said: "This makes me wonder what will happen with Adrianna Hicks from Six. She has liked posts supporting conversion programs."

If this is true, I'd say this is something she needs to clear up immediately, if she hasn't already.

She has apologized. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1cId6IJ2eg/

Accidental misunderstanding of one post? Sure. 5+? Yeah right.

Updated On: 10/1/19 at 09:31 AM