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Zorro

(16,056 posts)
Thu May 30, 2024, 09:34 AM May 2024

Lifeguard who took down Pride flags at beach sues L.A. County over religious discrimination

A longtime Los Angeles County lifeguard stationed in Pacific Palisades near a stretch beloved by gay beachgoers is suing the county for requiring him to work feet away from a Pride flag last summer and punishing him for taking three of the flags down.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court May 24 a week before this year’s Pride month kicks off, brings the county’s sparkling coastline squarely into the nation’s culture wars.

Jeffrey Little, an evangelical Christian who has worked for the county for more than 22 years, is represented by attorneys from the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic legal group known for challenging abortion rights, the 2020 election results and same-sex marriage.

In a show of support for LBGTQ+ constituents, officials with both the city of Los Angeles and L.A. County have recently pushed to raise the Pride flag at government buildings. Last year, the county board of supervisors voted to require that many government buildings fly the Progress Pride flag throughout Pride month.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-29/christian-lifeguard-sues-la-county-over-pride-flag-on-beach

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CousinIT

(9,726 posts)
5. HE is the one discriminating! I'm so sick of these self-entitled hypocrites.
Thu May 30, 2024, 09:41 AM
May 2024

They stomp all over other people's rights and then scream and whine that they are being discriminated against.

Bullshit.

-misanthroptimist

(968 posts)
6. Amazing logic:
Thu May 30, 2024, 09:45 AM
May 2024

"If you don't allow me to discriminate against those that are different from me, then I am being oppressed!"

The sad thing is that probably six SC inJustices agree with him.

unblock

(53,878 posts)
8. As a Jew, I'm being discriminated against every time I pass a McDonald's! They're not kosher!
Thu May 30, 2024, 10:06 AM
May 2024

This idea right-wingers have that their freedom of religion includes silencing others' freedoms of religion and speech is ludicrous, offensive, and not deserving of any respect.

Their freedom of religion entitles then to not engage in homosexual activity if their religion tells them that. It does not permit them to silence other people who disagree, other people who don't share that religious view.

Botany

(71,768 posts)
9. The little Little bigot does not have to work there end of story.
Thu May 30, 2024, 10:07 AM
May 2024

And how long before Jeffery Little is found visiting “The Locker Room” men’s bar in West
Hollywood?”

marble falls

(60,139 posts)
11. In the same way his wearing a crucifix publicly infringes on my religious rights. His brain must be waterlogged ...
Thu May 30, 2024, 10:13 AM
May 2024

... surely bikinis must infringe on his religious rights.

thucythucy

(8,618 posts)
15. My first thought as well.
Thu May 30, 2024, 09:16 PM
May 2024

I prefer my lifeguards not to be bigots, since what they do or don't do might be a matter of life or death.

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