Standing up for his principles.
Via WCIA:
A Tolono man has hired a lawyer after refusing to watch a workplace training video.
David Hall works at the Social Security Administration office in Champaign. He says all employees were told to watch a video about LGBT inclusion, but he claims that violates his religious freedom.
Hall says he’s expecting to be fired. He says he hopes it won’t come to that, but if it does, so be it. We sat down with him to let him explain his position, but that’s something LGBT community leaders say makes no sense.
“I can’t be any more sorta Christian than you can be sorta pregnant.”
David Hall has no problem signing his name on a blank piece of paper. His issue is signing something to confirm he’s watched a workplace diversity training video on the subject of LGBT customers.
“They wanted me to certify that I had completed the training,” says Hall. “I’m not going to certify sin.”
Hall works in this office as an IT guy of sorts, so he doesn’t deal directly with social security patrons. But after refusing to watch the video, he says he was still reprimanded for insubordination, then suspended for two days without pay. He says he requested a religions accommodation, but that was denied.
“My complaint is more with the fact that it was mandatory. We have never done that for another particular class of people. This is the only group of individuals that we’ve done it for. We haven’t done it for veterans, the disabled, blacks, Hispanics, or anything else.”
HT: Law Newz