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TIL Rave Ramsy fired one of his employees over premarital sex
(www.nbcnews.com)
How does he know? Can he prove it?
He was there the whole time
I’m haven’t read the article yet but I’m betting it was a woman and not a man.
Edit: Yep. She got pregnant and he fired her.
Dude admitted to being an Evangelical Christian, so that's part of the reason.
It's extremely messed up that Dave would do that, though.
Rave Ramsy suing for defamation....
/s
This is so fucking stupid because doesn't he tell people all the time on his call show that its fine for them to "shack up" and not be married? Different advice for the public audience to people he knows in real life. How odd.
He also tells people they "have to" tithe when they're debating cutting it to make their budget feasible.
What a prat
Is that even remotely legal?
It shouldn't be...
At will employment means either the employee or the employer can terminate the employment at any time for any reason, provided it isn’t discriminatory or retaliatory, so unless you can argue premarital sex havers are a protected demographic, it’s completely legal.
You're incorrect. The key isn't the sex part, it's the premarital part. It's called familial status discrimination. If you would fire an unmarried employee for a behavior, but not fire a married employee, it's marriage and familial status discrimination, which is illegal. You can't fire someone for being married, and you cannot fire them for not being married.
So you demand every staff member be celibate, that would be perfectly fine. But when you let married employees have sex, but you punish unmarried employees, then you are engaging in unlawful discrimination based on marriage and familial status.
Pretty sure you can argue freedom of religion
If your religion requires premarital sex, you can argue that. Freedom of religion and freedom from religion are not the same thing.
Yet freedom of religion laws also enshrine protections from religion for those who are atheist or or otherwise religiously disinclined. And I have yet to hear of a secularly written law that prohibits premarital sex.
Satanism to the rescue!
This is true, which is hilarious because it proves it's all just make believe bullshit. You can manufacture a religion and its tenets out of thin air and the courts are obliged to take it seriously and when they don't want to (ie: Church of Satan) it's fascinating to watch them try and call your bullshit bullshit without implying that their bullshit is also bullshit.
Anyhow, with the current makeup of the government, Ramsay can do what he wants. Why anybody would work for him is beyond my ability to understand. I think she gets what she deserves for accepting a job with a morality clause like this in it anyway, I've no sympathy at all. Likely another "Christian" who happily takes everybody else's rights away but when they want to have sex, well then they should get an exception. Get ~~fucked~~ bent.
Yes, but not with the current courts
But it protects the company's freedom of religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores%2C_Inc
Private employers in this country (including Ramsey) have more rights than workers.
Then the current courts are illegitimate.
Have been forever
We must argue that it's discriminatory against sex havers
Everything in the US is legal provided you're wealthy enough, or "Christian" enough.
"Rave Ramsey" makes him sound too cool
Rave Ramsey says go to Coachella with unpaid credit card balances.
I would expect someone called Rave Ramsey to be pan, chill and certainly not concerned with Christian Fundamentalist morality.
This is what they mean when they use the term "virtue signaling".
A Wall Street guy is a piece of shit? No way! Say it isn’t so.
Ruh roh raggy
N?TIL…
Good catch
Also check the title
Damnit. I thought you’ll teach me something new today! It was just a typo???
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