Does anyone shop at Office Depot? This hopefully will be the last nail in their coffin.
A suburban Chicago woman is accusing Office Depot of religious discrimination, saying employees told her that making copies of an anti-abortion prayer violated company policy.
The prayer was composed by the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of the anti-abortion group Priest for Life. It calls on God to “Bring an end to the killing of children in the womb, and bring an end to the sale of their body parts. Bring conversion to all who do this, and enlightenment to all who advocate it.”
The prayer also includes statistics about abortion in the U.S. and decries “the evil that has been exposed in Planned Parenthood and in the entire abortion industry.”
Company spokeswoman Karen Denning tells the Chicago Tribune that Office Depot prohibits the copying of material that advocates “the persecution of certain groups of people,” among other criteria. She says the flier “contained material that advocates the persecution of people who support abortion rights.”
Either you have the right to refuse service to anyone or you don’t. If you cannot refuse service to a protected class, you should not be able to refuse service to anyone.
She’s not the right kind of religion, but that’s another issue. Technically, where this incident occurred, there is an ordinance on the books explicitly protecting her right to service.
It was probably actually a picture of a hacked up dead baby those trolls are so fond of flaunting. I hate it. I am fairly anti-abortion, but every time I see these people I want to run them over with my truck. I am sure whatever God you follow doesn’t want that BS thrown around in his name.
Illegal, yes. Child porn would be the slam dunk case.
Not printing something that is religious in nature seems to me to be a pretty easy case- though we have to grit and bear our teeth while we print the Westboro Asshats stuff?
Could they deny some 2A supporters printing some banners or flyers for a rally against UBC and mag limits? There are a lot of people that would call that obscene and hateful material- and not as far as I know not a protected class.
