ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

An Arkansas Kroger store violated federal anti-discrimination law when it reportedly fired two employees who refused to wear L**T-themed aprons due to their religious beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

According to the Miami Herald, a dress code by the Conway, Ark., grocery store required employees to wear a rainbow-colored heart emblem on the bib of the apron. The women “believed the emblem endorsed L***Q values and that wearing it would violate their religious beliefs,” the EEOC said in a news release summarizing the suit.

Kroger disciplined the two women and eventually fired them, an action that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The EEOC charges Kroger with religious discrimination.

Both women are Christian.

The two women “offered to wear the apron with the emblem covered and the other offered to wear a different apron without the emblem, but the company made no attempt to accommodate their requests,” the EEOC said.

“Companies have an obligation under Title VII to consider requests for religious accommodations, and it is illegal to terminate employees for requesting an accommodation for their religious beliefs,” said Delner-Franklin Thomas, district director of the EEOC’s Memphis District Office. “The EEOC protects the rights of the L***Q community, but it also protects the rights of religious people.”

The EEOC tried but failed to reach a pre-litigation settlement, the news release said. The lawsuit seeks “monetary relief in the form of back pay and compensatory damages, as well as an injunction against future discrimination,” the EEOC said.

The Kroger Company operates 2,758 grocery stores in 35 states under a variety of names, including Kroger and Harris Teeter.

Kevyn

The Bible in the book of Mathew very clearly says it is sinful to wear a patch with a rainbow on your smocks. If god approved of rainbows he would put them in the sky.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

You have too much skin in that game, Mo.

But thanks for cracking that closet door and peeking out........we already knew how you rolled.

Kevyn

That wasn’t me you ran into at the bathhouse, I don’t swing that way. But don’t worry I support your right to live as you please.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

kevin: I'm trying to figure out who approved you? What are you hiding in your smocks?

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

God did put a rainbow in the sky but after he saw that people were going to use it for political purposes He both copyrighted and patented the sign (for full coverage). Obviously the people and companies using the sign are in violation of Gods law and deserve to be punished.

Wonttakeitanymore

The Bible clearly does not say that why don’t you dust it off and read it? Also if it did follow ur lie with a scripture!

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

teabag09

He could of at least put some lipstick on, red. Mike