Presence of women persecutes Christian men.
Quote:Rensselaer County man claims working alone with women violated his religion
In a federal lawsuit filed Oct. 14 in the Northern District of New York, Paul Ostapa alleges the Colonie branch of Trane Technologies did not follow through on his request for a religious accommodation and ultimately fired him from his HVAC technician job.
The trouble began when the company hired a female technician in the spring of 2022. A Southern Baptist, Ostapa asked his manager to not assign him to work alone with her due to his religious beliefs. While the manager initially agreed, Ostapa said at one point he was left alone with the woman when another technician left a commercial job site; he was reported to human resources when he later told a dispatcher he could not work with the female technician due to the religious accommodation. Ostapa was fired in October 2022 for insubordination, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit references a code of conduct followed by some evangelical Christians that is known as the “Billy Graham rule,” advising men to avoid spending time with women — such as traveling, meeting or dining — they are not married to. Graham was a pioneering televangelist and counselor to elected officials of both major parties.
Ostapa’s lawsuit references two Biblical passages in support of this conduct, including one in Genesis where an enslaved Joseph (of the coat of many colors) is falsely accused of making advances toward his owner’s wife. While the lawsuit says Ostapa later learned his coworker was a lesbian, it states that even the perception of possible misconduct with a woman would go against his beliefs.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
