A suburban Chicago woman says Office Depot discriminated against her Roman Catholic faith, charging staffers refused to run copies of an anti-abortion prayer because it violated company policy.
Maria Goldstein, 42, asked the Office Depot in Schaumburg, Ill., to make 500 copies of "A Prayer for Planned Parenthood" to distribute at her parish last month, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The handout also included statistics about abortion in the United States and at Planned Parenthood.
The prayer 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 Tribune reports.
It also decries "the evil that has been exposed in Planned Parenthood and in the entire abortion industry."
By refusing to copy the material for her, Office Depot "is trying to silence my freedom of speech and my freedom of religion," she tells The Daily Caller.
Company lawyer Robert Amicone counters the refusal had nothing to do with Goldstein's religious beliefs.
In a letter from Amicone obtained by The Daily Caller, he writes that certain language, such as "the killing of children in the womb" and "the grisly trade of body parts" as well as referencing the "death camps in our midst" is graphic hate speech by Office Depot's standards.
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Those high school drop outs have no business reading the customers papers any way! Their job is to make copies not read!
ReplyDeleteProgressives are trying to make Christianity illegal they already openly discriminate against them as directed by Obama.
ReplyDeleteSue them.
ReplyDeleteNobody asked you to read it, just to print it.
ReplyDeleteExactly 10:19!!! I bet if it were a gay or abortion prayer they would print it.
ReplyDeleteFrom the article:
ReplyDeleteBut on Friday, the company relented.
"We sincerely apologize to Ms. (Maria) Goldstein for her experience and our initial reaction was not at all related to her religious beliefs," Roland Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of Office Depot, said in a statement, the Chicago Tribune reports.
How about a voucher for free printing for a year? Might as well shake them down. It's how it works nowadays, right?
YES! Why are you reading my documents. Just F*&%ing print them and mind your $7.00 per hour business. Boycott this company.
ReplyDeleteShut up and make me a wedding cake! Now I can sue for both?
ReplyDeleteIt's really time to stop effing with PRIVATE businesses!