{"id":2953,"date":"2011-12-10T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/macys-fires-religious-type-to-demonstrate-diversity.html"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:15:00","slug":"macys-fires-religious-type-to-demonstrate-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/macys-fires-religious-type-to-demonstrate-diversity.html","title":{"rendered":"Macy&#8217;s fires religious type to demonstrate diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/texas-macy-employee-fired-allegedly-violating-store-lgbt-180504151.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a\u00a0boy wanted to change clothes in a women\u2019s dressing room<\/a>.\u00a0 A backward thinking employee (one of those religious types), thought that since he was a boy, he should change in, you know, the men\u2019s dressing rooms.\u00a0 Macy\u2019s did the only logically post-modern thing: they fired the employee to maintain the holiday spirit.\u00a0 Today, diversity means letting any sexual deviancy be tolerated, if not demanding that it be celebrated.\u00a0 Religion has got to go, unless it converts to the post-heterosexual gospel.\u00a0 Those who don\u2019t?\u00a0 That\u2019s where the Glorious Censorship steps in.\u00a0 A few commenters catch the wave and remind us of this fact:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\u201cTransgender people do exist. 2. This is why religion is a load of #$%$ 3. Fire her. 4. Thanks Macy\u2019s!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\u201cKudos to Macy\u2019s for kicking this cretin to the curb. If Jesus is helping you make your workplace decisions, let him also throw in some cash when it comes time to pay the rent. Until then, I suggest that all Jesus enthusiasts follow their employer\u2019s rules instead of their sock puppet savior\u2019s.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s nice that the post-modern secular left is coming out of the closet and admitting what they want.\u00a0 Anyone who still believes in the fairy tales of tolerance, diversity, and open mindedness?\u00a0 Please, let me know.\u00a0 I have a few bridges to sell you.\u00a0 Hopefully people of traditional faiths will wake up before it\u2019s too late, if it isn\u2019t already. <\/p>\n<p>The Glorious Censorship: In all things sex, drugs and bathroom humor, absolute freedom and protected liberties without consequence.\u00a0 In everything else, government control, censorship, oppression and the eradication of wrongthink for the eternal praise of our hedonism and libidos.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, a\u00a0boy wanted to change clothes in a women\u2019s dressing room.\u00a0 A backward thinking employee (one of those religious types), thought that since he was a boy, he should change in, you know, the men\u2019s dressing rooms.\u00a0 Macy\u2019s did the only logically post-modern thing: they fired the employee to maintain the holiday spirit.\u00a0 Today, diversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Macy&#039;s fires religious type to demonstrate diversity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yep, a&nbsp;boy wanted to change clothes in a women&#039;s dressing room.&nbsp; 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