From: mfactor@taronga.com (Marco Landin)
Subject: Re: Moderation (was Pentagrams)
Summary: I had a dream that everyone in the SCA was fired from their jobs
	 because they made the mistake of telling their bosses about how
	 they spend their weekends.
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:02:11 GMT

In article <88LNoB1w164w@ailanth.UUCP>, ailsa%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:
> bwilson@eng.AUburn.EDU (Brian Scott Wilson) writes:
> 
> > 
> > You are totally correct. It is my problem. I have had to deal with it before.
> > a member of my clan is some type of neo-pagan we get along great party and dr
> > and all that. He also has a truck with a BORN AGAIN PAGAN bumper sticker.  Th
> > is also an SCA sticker inm the window. When at work one day I had a fellow wo
> > ask me if I was a pagan (he knew that I was in the SCA). He didn't say much e
> > when I tried to explain that the SCA is very open and allowed all religions. 
> > I then noticed several different people make comments about church during 
> > conversations. Finally someone came out and asked me where I went to church. 
> > Three months later I was laid off even though I had more senority than other 
> > people.I don't know if there is a connection but I'm back in school while 
> > my wife supportsme.
> 
> after some thought, and talking with my housemate about this post, it 
> poccurred to me (because he suggested it) that discrimination on basius 
> of religion, or even the lack of it, is unconstitutional.  if you think 
> you have been unfaiurly fired, there are legal channels.  woudl you sit 
> back and take it if someone had fireed you because they thought you were 
> jewish?
> 
	I was fired for my spiritual beliefs.  I'm sure of it.  And if you want
to know where I like, that's Houston, Tx.  The lowest point in the Bible
Belt.  I've just been hired elsewhere today, after several weeks of
searching, but I still feel deep resentment over what happened. 
Basically, I was open during a lunchbreak discussion about my Neo-Pagan
philosophies, and about my non-orthodox spirituality.  Within two weeks,
they had me on a rope, finding ANYHTING they could find to hang me with.
No one has a perfect work history, and the 3 times I'd slipped in all the
while I'd worked as a model supervisor were enough to swing me from
preffered status to "about to get canned" in two weeks.  I was never so
angry in my life.
	I'm moving away from the South and to Seattle in January, mostly because
I experience pitfall after pitfall, being open and unafraid about my
spirituality and having that impede my ability to pay rent.
It's like that anywhere down here.  I've often wanted to carpet-bomb the
whole Bible Belt and start live over down here.
> this is what made me have to come back and answer again.  WHERE is it you 
> live, anyway?  Pplease tell me, so i never move there by accident.  it 
> sounds like one sick, sick community.  the town i live in is ratehr small 
> i didn't realize that i was still capable of being shocked.  is this what 
> baptists are like?  i went to a baptist church for sunday school as a kid 
> and never guessed.  i thought the hateful types were in the minority, and 
	EEEsh. Welcome to Texas, here's your jar of vaseline.  The fundies rule
this place, man.  If you don't ride with them, you don't ride.

	A su servicio
	Marcos Maria Montenegro Del Diablo
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