IKEA Fires Worker for Quoting Bible on Homosexuality
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
Poland launches investigation into anti-religious discrimination:
The world’s largest furniture retailer has been accused of anti-Semitism and anti-Catholic bigotry after it fired an employee for quoting Bible verses on homosexuality.
Long-term IKEA employee Tomasz K. — who refuses to reveal his full name for fear that no other company will employ him — worked at the store in Krakow, Poland and was fired after he refused to withdraw Bible verses he had posted in response to the store’s promotion of a pro-LGBT event.
“I was shaken up,” he said. “I’ve been hired to sell furniture but I’m a Catholic and these aren’t my values,” he told the television network TVP Info on Thursday.
IKEA responded Friday saying it had sacked Tomasz K. for “using quotes from the Old Testament about death and blood in the context of what fate should meet homosexual people.”
On May 16, IKEA posted a notice on its intranet asking workers to join in celebrating International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) “to stand up for the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender plus people of all sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBT+).”
In a following post, Sari Brody, Head of Equality, Diversity and Integration at IKEA, asked employees to pay attention to the pronouns they used.
“Ask for the transgender person’s preferred pronoun (hers, theirs, etc.)” and “engage LGBT + people in conversations about their partners and families,” she ordered staff.
Tomasz responded that “acceptance and promotion of homosexuality and other deviations is a source of scandal.”
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