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Sal

Sal

They have obviously and blatantly trampled this poor fellow's First Amendment rights!

The Big Sandy & Hawkins Journal does not normally report on lawsuits that involve individuals and businesses, but sometimes unusual circumstances create “newsworthy situations”. Readers who wish to comment may do so on our website, or to my email, but must include their name and the city they live in.

DeWitt R. Thomas, who has a Hawkins address, filed a federal lawsuit against Two Rivers Grocery Store & Market in Big Sandy because he believes his civil rights and religious freedom were violated when an African American sacker touched his groceries against his wishes.

Thomas filed the nine page hand-written lawsuit with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and is representing himself.

On page three of his lawsuit the following statement is included:

Listed as Item 14, Sec. C. General Factual Allegations

“DeWitt R. Thomas said: “Wait a minute, don’t touch my groceries. I can’t have someone negroidal touch my food, it’s against my creed!”

Thomas mentions is the paragraphs that follow the cashier was perplexed, and he had to explain what he meant to her. His statement says the sacker called for help up front and “a female in a white coat stepped out of the front office and told him to “Get your ….(expletive)…out and get out of here.” Thomas then says she called him a “……(expletive) idiot, repeatedly.

Thomas states in his suit that he kept saying “It is against my creed.” Then in Item 29, he stated, “Religion….religion, ma’am. It is against my religion.”

He said he was allowed to complete the transaction but only after “the female in the white coat attempted to proselytize him into her own creed”……and she said “God loves everybody”.

This incident took place “on or about March 5, 2012” and Thomas visited Two Rivers again on March 7, 2012 to purchase beverages and the same sacker came to handle the package. Item 39, Sect. C of the lawsuit said, “Once again, DeWitt R. Thomas, requested that the Negro not handle his groceries.”

http://www.news-journal.com/bigsandy_hawkins/news/lawsuit-against-two-rivers-claims-sacker-violates-customer-s-religious/article_34557b90-4f13-5b7a-90a8-1a569ebecb8f.html

Guest


Guest

They should have told him it was a gay black man who stocks the shelves...

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

This has me so upset I need a Chik-fil-a sandwich....

Guest


Guest

TEOTWAWKI wrote:This has me so upset I need a Chik-fil-a sandwich....

Chik-fil-a is my new favorite fast food joint.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

alecto wrote:
TEOTWAWKI wrote:This has me so upset I need a Chik-fil-a sandwich....

Chik-fil-a is my new favorite fast food joint.

I am headed there in a couple minutes....the sandwiches are getting smaller ..I wish they would just raise the price and keep the buns the original size...I feel like I goofed up and went to Krystals....

Guest


Guest

That man needs his ass kicked.

and I have to tell ya'll. This chic filet thing is starting to upset me.

There are some people at my work who go ona nd on about it and for the past couple weeks they all go and get chic filet and have a little party in the break room.

Its really making me uncomfortable and its almost a form of harrassment because they are making a statement in a work place which is not right.

if it was just a few days fine, but this is getting rediculus.

Guest


Guest

*Secret_Angel* wrote:That man needs his ass kicked.

and I have to tell ya'll. This chic filet thing is starting to upset me.

There are some people at my work who go ona nd on about it and for the past couple weeks they all go and get chic filet and have a little party in the break room.

Its really making me uncomfortable and its almost a form of harrassment because they are making a statement in a work place which is not right.

if it was just a few days fine, but this is getting rediculus.

Stand up and say something, file a complaint. They shouldn't be doing that at work but then again might be kind of hard to file a harassment suit because of what someone chooses to eat.

Guest


Guest

alecto wrote:
*Secret_Angel* wrote:That man needs his ass kicked.

and I have to tell ya'll. This chic filet thing is starting to upset me.

There are some people at my work who go ona nd on about it and for the past couple weeks they all go and get chic filet and have a little party in the break room.

Its really making me uncomfortable and its almost a form of harrassment because they are making a statement in a work place which is not right.

if it was just a few days fine, but this is getting rediculus.

Stand up and say something, file a complaint. They shouldn't be doing that at work but then again might be kind of hard to file a harassment suit because of what someone chooses to eat.

yeah, im not going to file a complaint. but it certainly lets me know who has strong feelings about gays there. I'm just keeping my head low. I eat in my office anyway. Im sure its just a fad.

Guest


Guest

alecto wrote:
Stand up and say something, file a complaint. They shouldn't be doing that at work but then again might be kind of hard to file a harassment suit because of what someone chooses to eat.

I think you are right. Intent in this case would be hard to prove. All they would have to say is that they all love chic-fil-a.

gulfbeachbandit

gulfbeachbandit

Thats it. I ain't shopping in east Texas no more.

Think of all the gas money I'll save by not driving to Texas to do my shopping.

Thanks for making us in pensacola aware of this.

Whew, what a relief.

Sal

Sal

*Secret_Angel* wrote:That man needs his ass kicked.

and I have to tell ya'll. This chic filet thing is starting to upset me.

There are some people at my work who go ona nd on about it and for the past couple weeks they all go and get chic filet and have a little party in the break room.

Its really making me uncomfortable and its almost a form of harrassment because they are making a statement in a work place which is not right.

if it was just a few days fine, but this is getting rediculus.

Look on the bright side, Chrissy. Not very long ago the haters would've spit on you and beat you to demonstrate their disdain. Now all they can do is gather together to eat fried chicken. They are weak and growing more powerless with each passing day.

gulfbeachbandit

gulfbeachbandit

salinsky wrote:
*Secret_Angel* wrote:That man needs his ass kicked.

and I have to tell ya'll. This chic filet thing is starting to upset me.

There are some people at my work who go ona nd on about it and for the past couple weeks they all go and get chic filet and have a little party in the break room.

Its really making me uncomfortable and its almost a form of harrassment because they are making a statement in a work place which is not right.

if it was just a few days fine, but this is getting rediculus.

Look on the bright side, Chrissy. Not very long ago the haters would've spit on you and beat you to demonstrate their disdain. Now all they can do is gather together to eat fried chicken. They are weak and growing more powerless with each passing day.

Sounds like someone is afraid of losing their "entitlements" this November.

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Guest

salinsky wrote:
Look on the bright side, Chrissy. Not very long ago the haters would've spit on you and beat you to demonstrate their disdain. Now all they can do is gather together to eat fried chicken. They are weak and growing more powerless with each passing day.

Sal I would have to disagree with you completely. Gay rights still is not mainstream and I don't think it will be for years to come. Perfect example of this was prop 8 in cali. If there was ever a place prop 8 could have passed it would have been cali but it was defeated by a wide margin. What you are starting to see is people stand up because they are sick and tired of being told what to believe and ridiculed for their own personal beliefs which in turn creates even more hatred towards the gay community. That is what the Chick-fil-a ordeal was over. Anyone who disagrees with gay rights or the gay community receives a barrage of vile hatred from the left and people are sick of it and they came out to show support for Chick-fil-a.

BTW the asshole in the story you posted needs the ever loving shit beat out of him. I only wish I could have been there to deliver it.

Sal

Sal

alecto wrote:
Sal I would have to disagree with you completely. Gay rights still is not mainstream and I don't think it will be for years to come. Perfect example of this was prop 8 in cali. If there was ever a place prop 8 could have passed it would have been cali but it was defeated by a wide margin. What you are starting to see is people stand up because they are sick and tired of being told what to believe and ridiculed for their own personal beliefs which in turn creates even more hatred towards the gay community. That is what the Chick-fil-a ordeal was over. Anyone who disagrees with gay rights or the gay community receives a barrage of vile hatred from the left and people are sick of it and they came out to show support for Chick-fil-a.

BTW the asshole in the story you posted needs the ever loving shit beat out of him. I only wish I could have been there to deliver it.

No, you're wrong. The world is changing at a pace you can hardly comprehend. It's true that old people are consolidating their bigotry, and that makes for a powerful, although fading, political bloc because old people vote. But, they also die in droves. The younger generations are different. I see this firsthand. I have a middle-schooler who is on Facebook. I monitor his account regularly. He has high-school "friends" who are openly gay. They post pictures of themselves holding hands and kissing their same-sex friends openly, and my son never blinks an eye. He just accepts that some people are different. I have never heard him refer to anyone as "gay" or "fag" or "queer" in a derogatory way. This is really quite startling for someone who grew up in a time when these terms were the slurs du jour, although I didn't know anyone who was openly gay at that time. Hell, we were big fans of Freddie Mercury and Rob Halford and never suspected a thing. LOL. No my friend, the dinosaurs may roar and make a mighty racket, but it's their death throes you are hearing. A new day is on the horizon.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

salinsky wrote:
alecto wrote:
Sal I would have to disagree with you completely. Gay rights still is not mainstream and I don't think it will be for years to come. Perfect example of this was prop 8 in cali. If there was ever a place prop 8 could have passed it would have been cali but it was defeated by a wide margin. What you are starting to see is people stand up because they are sick and tired of being told what to believe and ridiculed for their own personal beliefs which in turn creates even more hatred towards the gay community. That is what the Chick-fil-a ordeal was over. Anyone who disagrees with gay rights or the gay community receives a barrage of vile hatred from the left and people are sick of it and they came out to show support for Chick-fil-a.

BTW the asshole in the story you posted needs the ever loving shit beat out of him. I only wish I could have been there to deliver it.

No, you're wrong. The world is changing at a pace you can hardly comprehend. It's true that old people are consolidating their bigotry, and that makes for a powerful, although fading, political bloc because old people vote. But, they also die in droves. The younger generations are different. I see this firsthand. I have a middle-schooler who is on Facebook. I monitor his account regularly. He has high-school "friends" who are openly gay. They post pictures of themselves holding hands and kissing their same-sex friends openly, and my son never blinks an eye. He just accepts that some people are different. I have never heard him refer to anyone as "gay" or "fag" or "queer" in a derogatory way. This is really quite startling for someone who grew up in a time when these terms were the slurs du jour, although I didn't know anyone who was openly gay at that time. Hell, we were big fans of Freddie Mercury and Rob Halford and never suspected a thing. LOL. No my friend, the dinosaurs may roar and make a mighty racket, but it's their death throes you are hearing. A new day is on the horizon.


You seem to believe that all this tolerance will result in a better world. That I sincerely doubt. The same hate you accuse the old of reverses and flows unhindered from the newly liberated. I don't even have to imagine the future, We already have a sick demented society consuming vast amounts of porn and riddled with sexual disease. So If this is the beginning of your brave new world I am glad I am aged , I already see my grandkids being mentally poisoned by it.... ....

Sal

Sal

TEOTWAWKI wrote:
You seem to believe that all this tolerance will result in a better world. That I sincerely doubt. The same hate you accuse the old of reverses and flows unhindered from the newly liberated. I don't even have to imagine the future, We already have a sick demented society consuming vast amounts of porn and riddled with sexual disease. So If this is the beginning of your brave new world I am glad I am aged , I already see my grandkids being mentally poisoned by it.... ....

LOL. Sweet dreams, old man.

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Guest

salinsky wrote:
*Secret_Angel* wrote:That man needs his ass kicked.

and I have to tell ya'll. This chic filet thing is starting to upset me.

There are some people at my work who go ona nd on about it and for the past couple weeks they all go and get chic filet and have a little party in the break room.

Its really making me uncomfortable and its almost a form of harrassment because they are making a statement in a work place which is not right.

if it was just a few days fine, but this is getting rediculus.

Look on the bright side, Chrissy. Not very long ago the haters would've spit on you and beat you to demonstrate their disdain. Now all they can do is gather together to eat fried chicken. They are weak and growing more powerless with each passing day.

I dont dislke christians, I love them very much. I think people of my orientation would be much further along in acceptance at least as human beings if those radical gays and lesbians who march around with dildos and weird costumes were to stop that stuff. It gives normal living gays and lesbians a bad stereotype.

most people dont know I am a lesbian and Ive made freinds with plenty of people who were against gays/lesbians and when they find out I am one, I have often heard" youve changed my mind about how i see gays and lesbians. < thats what we need more of. I dont ask people or push people into saying how I am is right. I hope to get people to judge me for who I am as a individual, not my sexual orientation. I never introduce myself as hi, im so and so and Im a lesbian.

Those people Im talking about like me as a individual. they do not know im a lesbian. One day they will find out and perhaps they will think about this behavior and how hurtful it might have been.

God says do not judge. We are all spirits/souls/energy of light/star dust. each of us.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

salinsky wrote:
TEOTWAWKI wrote:
You seem to believe that all this tolerance will result in a better world. That I sincerely doubt. The same hate you accuse the old of reverses and flows unhindered from the newly liberated. I don't even have to imagine the future, We already have a sick demented society consuming vast amounts of porn and riddled with sexual disease. So If this is the beginning of your brave new world I am glad I am aged , I already see my grandkids being mentally poisoned by it.... ....

LOL. Sweet dreams, old man.

Thanks.

Caligula and Nero did a great deal to destroy Rome, you would have been a trendy guy back then all puffed up with how special he thought he was. Sex is enjoyable but it is nothing to base a life on. Protecting and building healthy self controlled young people that are smart enough to resist the trendy behavior that leads to abortions, disease and insanity is a far better pursuit . Keep up your foolishness it always leads to the same thing, a collapsed country easily subdued by what boils down to communism. Seems when you destroy society you destroy the main reason a man will fight a communist take over...his family. Enjoy your bread, circuses and bathhouses Sal, change is coming.

PBulldog2

PBulldog2



I dont dislke christians, I love them very much. I think people of my orientation would be much further along in acceptance at least as human beings if those radical gays and lesbians who march around with dildos and weird costumes were to stop that stuff. It gives normal living gays and lesbians a bad stereotype.

most people dont know I am a lesbian and Ive made freinds with plenty of people who were against gays/lesbians and when they find out I am one, I have often heard" youve changed my mind about how i see gays and lesbians. < thats what we need more of. I dont ask people or push people into saying how I am is right. I hope to get people to judge me for who I am as a individual, not my sexual orientation. I never introduce myself as hi, im so and so and Im a lesbian.

Those people Im talking about like me as a individual. they do not know im a lesbian. One day they will find out and perhaps they will think about this behavior and how hurtful it might have been.

God says do not judge. We are all spirits/souls/energy of light/star dust. each of us.

First of all, I'm not writing this just because of the makeup thingy. Very Happy Just wanted to get that out there.

Chrissy, I think you're doing the right thing by taking the high road as far as your co-workers' eating habits are concerned. They are the ones who must live with their bigotry, not you. They are not, at least for now, worth your time or emotional energy.

If it continues, and starts to get even more personal, you are well within your rights to file a complaint. Hell, I'm straight, and I would be quite offended if I found a bunch of my crew in a room eating Chic-Fila and laughing at jokes about gays, etc. I wouldn't report them right off, but we would definitely sit down and have a Come to Jesus meeting about the consequences of that type of behavior.

Make no mistake - it IS harassment based on sexual orientation IF it is done at work and in full view of and within the hearing range of others. Realistically, it would be easier for me to approach and direct the workers because (A) I'm straight and (B) I'm their boss for the duration of the shift. In your position, it would be much tougher, even if you are their direct report. They could claim retaliation against them because they are straight, yada yada.

I disagree with you, Ghost, about intent. As I wrote above, intent can be proven if this behavior is done in full view and within the hearing of those who could be offended. Yes, they may like their Chic-Filas, or however it's spelled, and they are welcome to eat them in a group, but it's the offensive behavior that is going along with it that can be proven if enough witnesses are available.

Obviously, this type of thing should never be allowed to go on in any corporation or facility. If nothing else, it amounts to a developing hostile workplace situation.

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Guest

I disagree with filing a complaint. Sure, Chrissy is within her rights to do so, but if Chrissy is like most people, they make simple errors from time to time that would ordinarily be overlooked. A complaint-filing "troublemaker" will not have a job for long if the boss starts documenting minor errors. Eventually the boss will have enough documentation for a firing to stand up in a court of law.

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As far as the grocery store is concerned, I bet that the case will be dismissed by the court. The grocery store is within their rights to refuse service to anyone... especially a foul-mouthed bigot.

Sal

Sal

TEOTWAWKI wrote:
Thanks.

Caligula and Nero did a great deal to destroy Rome, you would have been a trendy guy back then all puffed up with how special he thought he was. Sex is enjoyable but it is nothing to base a life on. Protecting and building healthy self controlled young people that are smart enough to resist the trendy behavior that leads to abortions, disease and insanity is a far better pursuit . Keep up your foolishness it always leads to the same thing, a collapsed country easily subdued by what boils down to communism. Seems when you destroy society you destroy the main reason a man will fight a communist take over...his family. Enjoy your bread, circuses and bathhouses Sal, change is coming.

Whoa. That's some fantasy life you have there. I'm guessing you're a big fan of gladiator movies. Amarite? Very Happy

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

salinsky wrote:
TEOTWAWKI wrote:
Thanks.

Caligula and Nero did a great deal to destroy Rome, you would have been a trendy guy back then all puffed up with how special he thought he was. Sex is enjoyable but it is nothing to base a life on. Protecting and building healthy self controlled young people that are smart enough to resist the trendy behavior that leads to abortions, disease and insanity is a far better pursuit . Keep up your foolishness it always leads to the same thing, a collapsed country easily subdued by what boils down to communism. Seems when you destroy society you destroy the main reason a man will fight a communist take over...his family. Enjoy your bread, circuses and bathhouses Sal, change is coming.

Whoa. That's some fantasy life you have there. I'm guessing you're a big fan of gladiator movies. Amarite? Very Happy

I did like the Russell Crowe Gladiator movie BECAUSE he loved his family so much but the perverted sick government took them away from him ...coincidently just like this sick pedophile promoting government is doing to American men.

Is there anybody in homeland security that isn't gender bent or a pedophile ?

Sal

Sal

TEOTWAWKI wrote:
I did like the Russell Crowe Gladiator movie BECAUSE he loved his family so much but the perverted sick government took them away from him ...coincidently just like this sick pedophile promoting government is doing to American men.

Is there anybody in homeland security that isn't gender bent or a pedophile ?

I knew it! I recommend the movie 300. You'll LOVE it. It's right up your alley.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

salinsky wrote:
TEOTWAWKI wrote:
I did like the Russell Crowe Gladiator movie BECAUSE he loved his family so much but the perverted sick government took them away from him ...coincidently just like this sick pedophile promoting government is doing to American men.

Is there anybody in homeland security that isn't gender bent or a pedophile ?

I knew it! I recommend the movie 300. You'll LOVE it. It's right up your alley.

As long as we are making recommendations...I never saw it but Caligula might rock your world....Shooter might even be better.. shows how the government sets up a patsy ..Mark Wahlberg...

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Guest

Yomama wrote:I disagree with filing a complaint. Sure, Chrissy is within her rights to do so, but if Chrissy is like most people, they make simple errors from time to time that would ordinarily be overlooked. A complaint-filing "troublemaker" will not have a job for long if the boss starts documenting minor errors. Eventually the boss will have enough documentation for a firing to stand up in a court of law.

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As far as the grocery store is concerned, I bet that the case will be dismissed by the court. The grocery store is within their rights to refuse service to anyone... especially a foul-mouthed bigot.

If Chrissy filed a complaint and as a result of that complaint she was harassed, discriminated against, or suffered retaliation for filing the complaint she would have one hell of a lawsuit against her employer and the Boss responsible. Her boss would have a hard time explaining why she was a good employee then all of a sudden after she filed a complaint she became a bad employee especially if she has had good performance evaluations from said employer and boss.

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